Cattle Art featuring Highland cows and specimen bulls of various cattle breeds. Horse art, dog art and paintings of championship winning sheep
Angela Davidson Animal Art
Angela Davidson's art gallery and workshops are based at her home in rural Aberdeenshire, near the small village of Insch. The company is a partnership of husband and wife: Angela creates the original artwork and Sandy runs the business.
Angela produces her artwork on the upper level of the split-level gallery, where visitors can watch as she brings her latest creation to life using either pastels or acrylic paint. At the other end of the same traditional granite building are the workshops, where the complete range of Angela's prints are produced using the latest technology.
Printing in-house not only allows the couple to print-on-demand (and thus solve what would otherwise be a very big storage problem) but also allows them to maintain their own very high standards. As Sandy says: “We take great pride in what we produce and always work up to a standard rather than down to a price. Everything we create is a direct reflection on our craftsmanship, so we tend to be very fussy about the standard of prints leaving our workshops. We also find our customers like the fact they are dealing directly with the artist.”
Angela is entirely self-taught. Apart from lessons at school, she has received no formal training as an artist, so the work you see on this website is the result of a combination of raw talent and a very long apprenticeship.
“At school the only things I was ever any good at were sport and art,” says Angela, “so I still can't quite believe I've ended up with the best job in the world. Visitors always seem intrigued when they see how I create my pastel work, as all I use is the pastel stick and my fingers. Most of my acrylic work is done using my palette knife.”
It was in 2002 when Angela created her first close-up of cows heads; a style that culminated in a piece titled Snout About, which was so close to the cattle it featured only their noses. Then, in 2006, she produced her first all-black artwork - just in time for that year's Royal Highland Show. The artwork featured a black Highland bull on a black background. The prints sold well, and so Angela's now familiar style featuring all-black backgrounds was born.
Finally, we hope you enjoy Angela's prints as much as she enjoyed creating the original artwork. We also hope that at some time you'll be able to visit the gallery and see her doing what she still insists is... “The best job in the world!”