Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 40 x 40 cm

Year: 2024

Inspired by a photograph of Laphroaig Distillery

The germination process takes longer as winter arrives on Islay, lasting up to seven days until the beans are ready to be dried in Laphroaig's kilns.
It is a time when malt masters meticulously monitor the grains to prevent them from burning.

Laphroaig is one of the few Scottish distilleries that still malts its own barley, soaking it in its Kilbride Stream peat water before it is dried over Islay peat, producing the distinctive, bold flavor of this magnificent whiskey.

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.