Smedley Fine Art

13/10/2026

A detail from an excellent painting of Lochranza, Arran, by the great Ethelbert White. Available to view in gallery - and now listed on our website.

10/10/2026

The gallery window this weekend - featuring John Aldridge, Leonard Squirrel, Jemima Chancellor, and Darcey Bateson.

05/10/2026

This excellent watercolour by Jemima Helen Pitman (neé Chancellor) (1868 - 1954) is now up in the window! The mother of the famed Jemima Pitman (1930 - 2025), the scene dates from c. 1900, depicting the iconic view from the St Andrew Pier up towards the cathedral.

02/10/2026

‘Smiling Through: Desirable Residence’ is an excellent cartoon by the famed Joseph Lee, drawn in June 1940 and published in the London Evening News on the 29th of June. With France having surrendered the prior week and the Channels Islands being occupied by German forces, the expectation was that Britain would be next - and the Local Defence Volunteers were there to meet the threat…

28/09/2026

Ethelbert White (1891 - 1972) was an influential Modern British artist at the centre of the London inter-war avant garde movement. Friends with C.R.W. Nevinson, he exhibited at the 1913 Allied Artists Exhibition, and was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society in 1925.

The scene is distinctly Scottish, with the baronial-style castle rising behind the fishermen and their nets providing a juxtaposition between rural life, Scottish architecture, and the rugged highlands behind.

Smedley Fine Art is an independent art gallery in the heart of St Andrews, Fife, specialising in Modern British and Scottish art. The gallery presents a varied selection of paintings, drawings, prints and historical artworks, with a particular interest in twentieth-century British art, Scottish art,...

26/09/2026

Delighted to have recently acquired this charming print of St Andrews castle at night, dating from 1915 by Charles Gustav Louis Phillips (1863 - 1944). Available for viewing in-gallery at 99 Market Street, and soon to be online.

15/09/2026

St Salvator’s Chapel - one of the most iconic views in St Andrews - captured excellently by Darcey Bateson. A contemporary watercolour rooted in a traditional style focussed on architectural detail, it’s available now for £300.

13/09/2026

This splendid watercolour, looking across the ruins of St Andrews Castle, is one of the latest additions to the gallery. Painted by the excellent Darcey Bateson, it is part of a larger series of paintings depicting elements of St Andrews, rooted in a traditional style that complements the historic nature of the town.

12/09/2026

New furniture and new artworks in the gallery! Do pop by for a browse - open this weekend from 11:30 until 16:00.

06/09/2026

Recently conserved and framed, this excellent, incredibly delicate and detailed drawing by Alexander Blackwood is off to an excellent new home. For more 19th and 20th century art, visit Smedley Fine Art at 99 Market Street or browse online.