Full time Artist Dod Dow, lives and works in his home city of Aberdeen. A graduate of Grays School of Art, his various subjects as a painter include portraiture, local landscape, townscape, castles, harbours and golf courses. Watercolour remains his favourite medium but he is also happy working in oil and acrylic, latterly concentrating on figurative pictures. Dod would prefer to be known as a realist painter although his recent work has become more painterly and impressionistic in style. His eye for detail, however, has won him many commissions. Dod has also become well known for his sports portraiture after being commissioned by Aberdeen Football Club to produce a painting to commemorate their Centenary in 2003 - ‘AFC Legends of the first 100 years’. Since then he has produced a group portrait depicting 37 British Open Golf Champions - ‘The Claret Jug Winners’ and in 2006 he was commissioned to paint ‘The Goal’ - a celebration of Scottish footballing legend, Archie Gemmill’s wonder goal scored against Holland in the 1978 World Cup. Dod completed his latest sports portrait project in 2008.  ‘The Gothenburg Greats’ commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Dons European Cup Winners’ Cup success in 1983. His Artist Exchange visit to Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2007 has also opened up new creative avenues for him to pursue. Dod was invited to show an exhibition of paintings in Clermont-Ferrand in the summer of 2008 to celebrate 25 years of the twinning between the French city and Aberdeen. This proved to be very successful and Dod hopes to exhibit in France again soon. In a complete change of direction in 2009, Dod started work on a cartoon strip - ‘Joe Baxi the Abermean Taxi’ to finally record some of the experiences he suffered and enjoyed as a taxi driver back in the eighties and early nineties. The Evening Express published the strip online and the weekly storylines became very topical - tracking all the various goings on in Aberdeen throughout 2009. Dod then gathered all his material into a book - ‘The Long Hard Road to Easy Street’ at the end of the  year. His first love however remains painting and he continues to work on a steady stream of commissions and exhibits regularly in Aberdeen and the North East. His images have been reproduced in prints, postcards, Christmas cards and calendars; so his work is now familiar to many worldwide.   

“Wherever I go and whatever I do becomes the source of painting ideas for me, the process is continuous.” “My painting develops as time goes by, I look forward to more challenges and opportunities to grow as an Artist.” 

Commissions for Original Paintings welcome.  Watercolours and Oils - most subjects.

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