Philip Raskin

Philip Raskin is a highly regarded Scottish landscape artist, known for his evocative paintings that capture the atmosphere, light and quiet poetry of Scotland’s wild places.

Born and educated in Scotland, Philip Raskin studied at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1960s. His studies were cut short by the sudden and untimely death of his father, a life-changing event that led him away from art and into the world of business. For nearly twenty years, Philip and his wife were proprietors of the much-loved Inn on the Green restaurant, a period that became an important and formative chapter in his life.

In time, Philip Raskin returned fully to painting, devoting himself once again to his easel and brushes. Today, he is celebrated for a distinctive and instantly recognisable style that combines bold, heavy impasto with a remarkable delicacy and sensitivity more often associated with watercolour. This unique approach allows him to build richly textured surfaces while retaining a lightness of touch and emotional subtlety.

Raskin’s paintings are deeply rooted in the Scottish landscape. Expansive skies, shifting weather, mist-softened hillsides and reflective waters dominate his compositions. His intuitive use of colour, often working with a restrained and harmonious palette, creates works that radiate peace, stillness and tranquillity. Light and atmosphere are central to his practice, and his paintings possess a quiet, meditative quality that invites prolonged looking.

Philip Raskin’s work is widely collected throughout the UK and internationally, and he has built a loyal following among collectors who are drawn to the emotional depth and timelessness of his landscapes.

As the artist himself explains:
“I tend to paint very private places for the viewer to own and enjoy. No people, no houses, no telegraph poles; just expansive skies, mist tumbling on a distant hillside and a silence broken only by lapping water and gulls ascending.”