slideshow: selected work
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Early Evening, Tree by a Pond, Oil on Board, 16 x 24cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
WIW south of Kilchattan Bay, Oil on Board, 7 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2025
Evening Sun, Path to Gortens, Oil on Paper, 7 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Trees on the River Nith (Dumfries), Watercolor on Paper, 17.5 x 12cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Argyll Mountain Scene, Acrylic on Canvas, Michael O'Kane, 2019
Waves at Ettrick Bay Study (7), Watercolor on Paper, 14.2 x 10cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Rocky Outcrop north of Ettrick Bay, Oil on Paper, 8 x 6 in, © Mike O'kane 2025
Across the Bay, Acrylic on Paper, 7 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Rough Seas, Acrylic on Paper, 20 x 24 cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Dark Skies over the Clyde Estuary (3), Acrylic on Canvas, 8 x 8 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Distant Island, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Dark Skies over the Clyde Estuary (2), Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Still Life, Sweetpeas, Oil on Canvasboard, 12 x 10 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Cycling on a Wet Irish Shore, Oil on Board, 16 x 23cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Solitary Hawthorn, Oil on Canvasboard, 12 x 10 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
A burn in the Fields, Oil on Paper, 6 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Dog Roses, Oil on Board, 8 x 6 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Scottish Landscape, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Cows, Isle of Bute Landscape, Oil on Canvas, 21 x 30cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Landscape, Oil on Board, 20 x 15cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Path Near Gortons Farm, Isle of Bute, Oil on Board, 8 x 6 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Mountain Landscape, Oil on Board, 6 x 8 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Small Mountain Study, Acrylic on Paper, 8 x 9cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Bee on Wild Margoram (Oregano), Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 10cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Herring Gull, Acrylic on Paper, 14 x 14cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Waves at Ettrick Bay Study (3), Watercolor on Paper, 9 x 7.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Waves at Ettrick Bay Study (4), Watercolor on Paper, 6 x 4 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Darkening Land, Acrylic on Paper, 16 x 26.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2024
Fence and Barbed Wire, Watercolor on Paper, 7 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2015
Fallen Tree Limb, Watercolor on Paper, 11 x 7cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
NC Blue Ridge Forest Scene, Watercolor on Claybord, 12 x 9 in, © Mike O'kane 2007
Waves And Shore, Watercolor on Paper, 9.5x14.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Ploughed Field, Newton Hall, Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 12 cm, © Mike O'kane 2014
Pastel Seascape, Oil Pastel on Paper, 23 x 23cm, © Mike O'kane 2012
Bent Creek, Early Winter, Watercolor on Paper, 6 x 6 in, © Mike O'kane 2010
Path near Newton Hall, Durham, Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 12cm, © Mike O'kane 2015
Robin on a Wire near Ettrick Bay, Acrylic on Paper, 12 x 9 in, © Mike O'kane 2021
X (after reading John Fosse), Oil Pastel on Paper, 6 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2022
Screenshot 1-D cellular automaton, Computer Program on Monitor, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1988
Trunk of apple tree (1), Watercolor on Paper, 14 x 10cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Ruddy Turnstone on the Shore, Acrylic on Paper, 15 x 22cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Ettrick Farm, Acrylic on Paper, 9 x 14cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Haystacks (After Monet), Oil Pastel on Paper, 5 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2022
Falls at Graveyard Fields, N, Carolina, Watercolor on Paper, 11 x 10cm, © Mike O'kane 2010
Rhodedendrons beside Bent Creek, Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 11cm, © Mike O'kane 2010
Bent Creek in the N.C. Arboretum, Watercolor on Paper, 15 x 17.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2010
Muddy Field, Watercolor on Paper, 13 x 13cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Evening Light from my Back Window, Acrylic on Canvasboard, 14x10 in, © Mike O'kane 2022
Small Landscape, Watercolor on Paper, 9.5 x 7.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Jenny at Ettrick Bay (wave study), Acrylic on Paper, 6 x 4 in, © Mike O'kane 2022
Girl in A Passage to India (film), Pencil on Paper, 15 x 13cm, © Mike O'kane 2022
Birches, Loch of Lowes, Dunkeld, Acrylic on Canvasboard, 16 x 12 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Young Couple by the Tyne, Newcastle, Watercolor on Paper, 14 x 9cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Storm and Sun at Ettrick Bay (1), Acrylic on Paper, 20 x 15cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Water Meadow, Acrylic on Paper, 20.3x24.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Open Landscape, Acrylic on Paper, 5 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Trees near Gortens Farm, WIW, Watercolor on Paper, 6 x 4 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Mountain Study, Oil Pastel, Oil Pastel on Paper, 6.5 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Beach Road (after Sir James Guthrie), Oil Pastel on Paper, 6.5 x 6.5 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Dumfries River Landscape (2), Acrylic on Paper, 12 x 14cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Brambles near Ettrick Bay (1), Watercolor on Paper, 15 x 10cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Weak Sun at Scalpsie Bay, Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 40cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Wintry Kames Bay, Acrylic on Paper, 19 x 19cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
White Light on Ettrick Bay, Acrylic on Paper, 19 x 24cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Across Kames Bay, Study (1), Acrylic on Paper, 5 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2023
Tree Study, Pen on Paper, 13.8x13.3cm, © Mike O'kane 2009
Red Squirrel, Watercolor on Paper, 5 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Young Siskin, Oil on Board, 6 x 8 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Jenny’s Sheep in the Snow, Acrylic on Paper, 10 x 14cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Screenshot, Bifurcations and Chaos, Computer Program on Monitor, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1988th GIMP
Abstract Painting, Oil on Canvas, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1992
Children outside Everson Museum (1), Photograph on Paper, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1978
Installation, Painted Wood, Mixed Media on (no support), (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1976
Tree Study, Pen on Paper, 10.5x9.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2009
Maeve Sleeping, Pen on Paper, 11 x 11cm, © Mike O'kane 2005
Appalachian View near Asheville, N.C., Pencil on Paper, 20 x 15cm, © Mike O'kane 2012
Appalachian Scene, Pencil on Paper, 20.3x15.2cm, © Mike O'kane 2012
Whitethroat, Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 12cm, © Mike O'kane 2015
Screenshot Emergence Study, Computer Program on Monitor, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1988
Osprey, Blackwater Swamp, N. Carolina, Pen on Paper, 11 x 15cm, © Mike O'kane 2012
NC Arboretum Forest Scene, Watercolor on Claybord, 5 x 7 in, © Mike O'kane 2007
Imaginary Landscape, Mixed Media on Paper, 7.5x8.3cm, © Mike O'kane 2006
Landscape Study, Pen on Paper, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 2009
Rhodedendrons beside Bent Creek, Watercolor on Paper, 12 x 11cm, © Mike O'kane 2010
Bent Creek, North Carolina Arboretum, Watercolor on Paper, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 2012
Mask, Conte on Paper, 12 x 12 cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Masked Head Study, Conte on Paper, 9 x 9.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Small Face Study (Smoking), Pencil on Paper, 6 x 7cm, © Mike O'kane 2018
Optical Study (3), Pencil on Paper, (size not available), © Mike O'kane 1972
Ettrick Bay, April, 2023, Pencil on Paper, 7.5 x 9.5cm, © Mike O'kane 2023
Sunset and Pond, Oil Pastel on Paper, 7 x 5 in, © Mike O'kane 2024
Small Roses on Windowsill, Oil on Board, 30 x 21cm, © Mike O'kane 2025
River Sketch, Peak District, Mixed Media on Paper, 11.5 x 8cm, © Mike O'kane 1972
