Sally McLeish

Sally McLeish is a contemporary watercolourist whose work evokes the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Her distinctive style combines fluid washes with expressive dry brush technique, allowing her to capture transient moments with immediacy and sensitivity. Working swiftly, McLeish embraces the spontaneity of watercolour, distilling scenes of trees, estuaries, and oceanic expanses into luminous impressions. Her palette and brushwork mirror the rhythms of nature—restless, yet serene—imbuing each piece with both clarity and atmosphere. Drawing on her deep connection to the landscape, McLeish’s paintings serve as meditative reflections on place and presence. Her work invites the viewer to pause, to witness the ephemeral, and to find stillness in motion. She continues to exhibit widely and paint from her coastal studio.