Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 50 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph by @lindoresabbeydistillery

Considering its historical importance, Lindores Abbey distillery has been built as an aesthetically sympathetic monument to the 800-year-old Tironensian structure, using local wood from Denmylne and stone from Clatchard Quarry.

Lindores’ one wash still and two spirit stills (Poppy and Gee) produce a lightly peated Lowland malt (the site lies just on the border with the Highlands) using barley grown on neighbouring farms and around Fife, and malted at Muntons.

n 2017, spirit started flowing once again from copper stills at Lindores Abbey Distillery, and the first single malt whisky was released in 2021.

This is my last homage, for now, to this amazing distillery which I love to paint. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 50 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph of Lindores Abbey Distillery

Built as a daughter house of Kelso Abbey, Lindores Abbey was founded on the outskirts of Newburgh, Fife, in the late 12th century by the Earl of Huntingdon.
The Tironense Abbey, once visited by kings and queens, is now little more than an overgrown ruin. It is claimed that the first written reference to whiskey produced in Scotland relates to Lindores Abbey.

Since 2004, Drew McKenzie Smith inherits Lindores Abbey, House and Farm and becomes Custodian of Lindores Abbey and in 2016 development of the farm buildings began into a new state-of-the-art whiskey distillery and , in December 2017, the first Lindores liqueur mash was prepared.
Once this was done, the first stills and the first barrels were filled. In 2020, they made their first Scotch whiskey.

Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 50 x 40 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph by @lindoresabbeydistillery

Lindores Abbey was a Tironan abbey outside Newburgh in Fife, Scotland.
The earliest record of Scotch whiskey in the exchequer from 1494 is a payment from King James IV to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey for approximately "eight balls of malt" or 580kg of aquavitae as it was then known.
Brother John Cor (Johanni Cor/John Kawe) was a Tironan monk who lived in Lindores Abbey.
The monks distilled rose water at the Abbey, and in May 1540 rose water and Lindores apples were sent to James V.
Now a reduced ruin, it stands on the south bank of the River Tay, approx. 1 mile north of the village of Lindores and is a scheduled ancient monument.

Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 40 x 40 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph of @Scapa by @luxuriate.life

The Scapa Distillery and its tasting room pay tribute to the traditions and crafts of the Orkney Islands.
Scapa embraces the contrast between the wild and the tranquil; being surrounded by both the harsh elements and the sea-washed cliff edge, whilst nestled within an oasis of tranquility as a nod to the welcoming warmth of the Orcadian community.

Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 50 x 50 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph of Blair Athol Distillery

The Blair Athol Distillery is a single malt whiskey distillery in Scotland. It is used in Bell's whiskey and is usually also available in 12 year old bottles. The distillery is located at the southern end of Pitlochry in Perthshire, near the River Tummel.
Founded in 1798 by John Steward and Robert Robertson, originally called 'Aldour', after the burning of Allt Dour, the distillery draws water, but it closed shortly after opening.
The distillery reopened and changed ownership to John Robertson in 1825.
It was sold several times in the subsequent period, until the distillery closed in 1932. Arthur Bell and Sons bought the mothballed distillery, but did not return to open until it was rebuilt in 1949.
In 1973, the distillery expanded and added two more stills to the previous two.