“This landscape contains the full Earth story.”
Phoebe Cope is an Irish painter living in the Scottish Borders, drawing from the land, the seasons and the living world around her. She works in oils on linen, sanguine chalk and stone.
The Black Hill & Culter Fell Oil on linen 110x150cm
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Lanarkshire Life Portraits in Sanguine, Landscapes in Oil, Linocuts of Animals
6th — 31st May 2026
East Kilbride Arts Centre, Old Coach Road, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, G74 4DU
Preview: Wednesday 6th May, 7pm
Open Monday — Sunday, 10am — 4pm
Red Tamworth Sow one colour block linocut on Japanese paper, £120 unframed
May Blossom, Duck, Burn Oil on linen, 120x90cm
Mother Hen 2 colour block linocut on Japanese paper, £240 unframed
Dragonflies pond Oil on linen 120x90
Blue Donkey One color block Linocut on Japanese paper , £150 unframed
For the PDF catalogue please email: phoebecopestudio@gmail.com Spring Awakening Sakura, Oil on linen, 60x50cm
Buachaill Red sanguin
The Black Hill & Culter Fell 110x150cm Oil on linen
Cailín Red sanguin
Old Runrig & Cultivation Terracing under Snow Oil on linen, 75 x60cm
Start of John Buchan Way, Broughton Heights
Fallen Goat Willow & Burn Oil on linen 55x80
Detail Goat Willow
Biggar Forest School
Damson & Hens Oil on linen 60x75
Kale Yard Study Red Sanguin
Alba Rose study
James Grieve Apple Sakura Oil on linen 60x50
Red Tamworth pigs at the Scottish National Museum for Rural Life Red sanguin
Belted Galloway - Drawing- print idea
Clydesdale Colt, Quothquan by Tinto, Lanark rd. oil on linen 60 x75
Moonrise, Mossy Bole in Snow Oil on linen 60x75
Moonrise, Mossy Bole
Red Dog Red sanguin
Mother & Child Red sanguin
My Mother Oil on gesso
Red Kite & Bull finch Oil on gesso, 40x30cm
Cordoned Lord Egremont Russet Oil on gesso, 40x30cm
Scotspine Drumelzier Oil on gesso, 40x30cm
Malevich ‘Molly the Witch’ Peonies Oil on gesso, 40x30cm
Rowan & St Bega’s Kirk Oil on gesso 30x40cm
Plums and red admirals Oil on gesso, 30x40cm
Hawthorn in snow Oil on gesso wood 30x40
Helping to Feed Oil on gesso, 40x30cm
Sunrise on Ice Pond Oil on gesso 40x30
Last Tango Oil on gesso wood, 40x30
Sunset over Wild Orchids, Milkwort, Spaghnum, Bog Cotton Oil on linen 75x60
Clann Study Red sanguin
From Abingdon
Minister & Terrier Red sanguin
Stone carver Susheila Red sanguin
Pilot Red sanguin
Friend & Florist Red sanguin
Roses of Alba with Starlings & Moths Oil on linen 120x90cm Royal Hibernian Academy 2026 Part of series of Plant Emblems including Shamrock, Thistle, Fleur-de-Lis )
Blooming Damson in Hen Run Oil on linen 75x60cm
Editioning in the studio
At the front door. The following images below are some of the preparatory studies, drawn in pencil, wash, chalk, pastel & oil. They are a combination of gestural and analytical, and helped me to formulate compositions in the paintings.
The kitchen with ‘minibar’
Blue Leicesters study
Near Stobo
Broughton Piebalds
Clydesdales Biggar
Piebald Shetlands
Shetland
Autumn Gosland Oil on gesso, 30x40cm
Cardon
Towards little Babylon
Towards Nisbet
Impatient
Engineering
The ditch pond
Centenarian Cousin
Drumelzier - avoiding ticks
From Glasgow
From Tokyo
The Second Sketch
The Second Version
Spruce Oil on linen 80x55
Plan for Spruce
Plan for Larch
Plan for Yarrow Meadow
Early Learning
Wearing stud boots
Drumelzier double
Drumelzier double
Drumelzier drawer
Drumelzier life class
Iris study
Newborn
Birthday card
After Gauguin’s ‘ D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous‘
After Brueghel’s ‘The Blind leading the Blind’
Newborn
Study for a Family in clay
Study for a sculpture in stone
Belted Galloway - Drawing - print idea
Hen run
Tea time
With favourite plum tree
