Ruth Brownlee

b.1972
Ruth Brownlee

Ruth Brownlee is one of Shetland’s foremost contemporary painters, known for her expressive depictions of the island’s elemental landscape. Her paintings capture the dramatic weather, shifting light and restless sea that define life at the northern edge of Scotland. Born in Edinburgh and trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Brownlee has lived and worked in Shetland for over two decades. From her studio in South Mainland, she paints the ever-changing moods of the Atlantic, transforming raw experience into paintings that are both personal and profoundly rooted in place.

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Ebbing Sea, Quendale, 2026

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January Ness Storm Seas, 2026

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Brightening Skies, Quendale, 2026

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Mid-January Wild Sea, Scatness, 2026

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December High Seas: Ness, 2025

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Winter Dusk Storm, Scatness, 2025

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Rain Approaching: Quendale, 2025

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Winter’s Gold, Sumburgh, 2025

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Clearing Autumn Skies, Quendale, 2025

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December Gales, Westside Shetland, 2024

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North Sea Gale, Burra, 2025

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Breaking Clouds, Yell, 2023

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January Dusk Gale, Ness Banks, 2025

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Rain on the Way, Quendale, 2025

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Winter Dusk: Quendale, 2025

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Clearing Gale, Sumburgh, 2025

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October Walk on the Banks by Burra, 2024

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Dusk Clouds, Ness, 2024

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Northern Lights, Sandwick, 2023

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After January Gale, Ness, 2025

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Autumn Blue Light, Scatness, 2024

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Autumn Gale, Westside, 2024

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Autumn Gales, Cunningsburgh Banks, 2024

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Autumn Rain, Ness, 2023

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Big Sea, Mail, Cunningsburgh, 2023

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Blue Light, Sumburgh, 2024

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Blustery Wet Day, St. Ninian’s, 2025

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Bracing January Gale, Cunningsburgh, 2024

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Breaking Light, Sandwick, 2024

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Burra Westerly Gale, 2025

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Clearing December Gale, Burra, 2024

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Clearing September Skies, West Sandwick, Yell, 2023

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Clearing Spring Skies, Scord, 2024

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Clearing Sky, Sumburgh, 2024

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Cumlewick Winter Dusk, 2023

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Dark Sky Clearing over Quendale, 2025

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Darkenin’ Quendale Beach, 2025

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December Nor Easterly Gale, Ness, 2024

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December Pink Dusk, Quendale, 2023

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Dreich Day, Scord, 2024

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Dusk Gale, Scord, 2024

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Dusk Unst, 2024

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Ebb Seas, Ness, 2025

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Ebb Tide, Quendale, 2024

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Falling December Dusk, Sumburgh, 2023

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Gathering Skies, Quendale, 2024

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Twilight, West Sandwick, Yell, 2024

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High Seas, Scatness Banks, 2023

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High Seas, Troswickness, 2024

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Incoming North Sea, Westside, 2025

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Incoming Wild Seas, Scatness, 2024

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January Storm, Sandwick, 2025

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Light Break in Heavy Sky, Quendale, 2024

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Light Break, West Sandwick, Yell, 2024

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Light Over Yell Sound, 2023

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Loaded Skies, Sumburgh, 2025

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Low Light, Quendale, 2024

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March Gale, Burra, 2023

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Misty Skies, Easting, Unst, 2024

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Moonlit, 2025

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Morning Light, 2025

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Ness Easterly Gales, 2023

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Noness in Snow, 2024

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Northerly Turquoises, December, 2024

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November Gale, Northmavine, 2024

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October High Seas, Gulberwick, 2023

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Quarff Banks looking South, 2024

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Rain over Scousburgh, 2024

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Rose Dusk, Scatness, 2024

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Scatness High Seas, Autumn, 2024

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Scatness Wild January Seas, 2025

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Sea Swell, Ness, 2024

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September Hues, Sumburgh, 2024

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September Light, Yell, 2024

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September Morning Light, 2024

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Simmer Dim, 2025

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Snow Approaching Noness, 2023

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Snow Geo, 2024

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Snow, Mousa Sound, 2023

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South Westerly Seas, Scatness, 2025

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Storm Banks, Noness, 2024

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Storm Beach, Ness, 2023

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Storm Seas, Burra, 2023

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Storm Seas, Sandwick, 2024

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Summer Blustery Day, Cunningsburgh, 2024

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Summer Blustery Gale, St. Ninian’s, 2024

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Summer Rain, Sumburgh, 2025

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Tidelines, Quendale, 2025

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Walk Along the Banks, St Ninian’s, 2024

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West Voe Gale, 2023

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Westside Moor Gale, 2024

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Westside Winter Gale, 2024

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Wild January Seas, Sandwick, 2025

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Winter Dusk Storm II, Cunningsburgh, 2024

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Winter Dusk Storm, Cunningsburgh, 2024

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Winter Gale at Twilight, Scatness, 2023

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Winter Light, Ness, 2025

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Winter Pink Dusk, Sandwick, 2025

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Winter Seas, Burra, 2025

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Winter Westside Twilight Gale, 2023

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November Dusk, Cunningsburgh, 2024

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First of the Autumn Gales, Sumburgh, 2023

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Sky Clearing, Scousburgh, 2023

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Scatness High Seas, 2023

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Clearing Gale, Cunningsburgh Banks

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Midsummer Gale, Ness

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Incoming Rain, West Voe

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