Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

Tom H. Shanks, RSW, RGI, PAI (1921-2020) was a master at capturing the grandeur and beauty of the Scottish landscape. On leaving school, he started his career as a designer with Templeton's Carpet Factory in Glasgow, exhibiting his early pieces in the company art club. As his skills developed he applied to Glasgow School of Art, where his talent was recognised, and he enrolled there full time. In 1950 after he graduated, Tom joined prestigious Edinburgh weavers, Dovecot Studios, as well as becoming a mural painter, stage designer and teacher.

He painted for over seventy years, mostly drawings and watercolour landscapes of the west highlands and islands. Visits to Skye had a profound effect on his work. He drew on his romantic memories and experiences of his many years enjoying the beauty of the lochs, mountains and seas, to create his atmospheric works. Tom had a unique skill in bringing to life the complexities of the weather and varied terrain of Scotland's hills, lochs, glens and coastal waterways.

Over the long period of time we worked with him, we were always impressed by the freshness of his work and his powerful ability to convey the effect that the landscape can have on you. The reality of the scene before him and the calm and thoughtful mood Tom creates is impressive and wide in his vision. He had numerous exhibitions at Gerber Fine Art in Glasgow, as well as at other places throughout Scotland, and he regularly took part in all the main Scottish annual exhibitions. His work is collected and admired by many, both in Scotland and further afield, and is in the collections of the Scottish Arts Council; Glasgow, Greenock and Dumbarton Councils as well as the House of Lords in London.

  • loch at Skye

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Dunvegan

  • Scottish landscape with hills and beach

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Ardnamurchan Shore

  • loch and hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Morven from Lismore

  • hills and sea

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Benderloch from Lismore

  • loch and hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Arklet

  • Bay view of Kyleakin

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Kyleakin, Isle of Skye

  • loch

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Eishort, Skye

  • iona

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Iona

  • mountain scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Ben More from Crinan

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Eishort, Skye (ii)

  • mountain scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Carron

  • road in a landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Road to Loch Harport, Skye

  • boats in a harbour

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Dartmouth, 1989

  • mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast Landscape 1 (Landscape with Snowy Peaks)

  • Countryside scene with a chicken on the road

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Country Landscape (West Coast Landscape III)

  • mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Hourn from Arnisdale

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Summer Landscape (West Coast Landscape VI)

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Squall (West Coast Landscape II)

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast Landscape VIII

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Youth Hostel, Loch Lomond

  • mountains and loch

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Hourn I

  • landscape with bright blue water

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Skye Landscape

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Snowy Hills

  • loch and hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Nan Uamh

  • a river in Florence

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    The Arno, Florence, 1951

  • Scottish landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Tobermory Moor, 1952

  • Scottish landscape with hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast Landscape

  • yachts at sea

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Imachar, Isle of Arran

  • island of iona

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Iona Landscape

  • loch and hills

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Slapin

  • lismore

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Lismore

  • hills and sea

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Arran from the Mainland III

  • West coast landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast Landscape (XI)

  • sutherland

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Sutherland Landscape

  • dark mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Dark Mountains

  • snowy mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Snowy Mountains

  • beach scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Iona Shore

  • Italian lake scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Malcesine, 1995

  • beach scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Kiloran Bay, 1970

  • a beach scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast Beach

  • loch duich

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch Duich

  • sea shore

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Rain, Sea, Shore

  • mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Mountain Landscape

  • mountains

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Highland Mountains

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Near Busby, c 1940

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Dark Mountains (ii)

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Dark Sky

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Standing Stones, Kirkmichael

  • village scene

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Pittenweem

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Untitled (Landscape)

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Highland Hamlet

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Blue Hills

  • a castle

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Castle View

  • Culzean castle

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Culzean

  • castle & rocks

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Dumbarton Rock & Castle, 1961

  • castle

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Eilean Donan Castle, Loch Duich

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    From Plockton, Loch Carron, 1948

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Houses among the trees

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Loch nan Uamh, Arisaig, 1948

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Menteith

  • buildings in a landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Old Laundry, Armadale Castle, Skye

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Paps of Jura from Tayvallich Point, Islay

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    Rathlin Island from Ballycastle, summer, 1955

  • a glen

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    A Scottish Glen

  • landscape

    Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI

    West Coast, Scotland

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