Welcome to the work of contemporary landscape painter Jade Stout. Based in Falkirk, Scotland, Jade is an award-winning visual artist celebrated for her captivating, abstracted landscapes and seascapes. Her work explores the interplay of composition, light, and atmosphere, transforming memories and impressions of place into lyrical, imagined vistas.
Jade trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with a First Class degree in 2000 and a postgraduate degree in Fine Art in 2002. After exhibiting widely early in her career, she paused her practice while raising her daughter and returned to professional painting in 2020.
Working from her garden studio, Jade paints in acrylic, oil, and watercolour. Her process begins with quick sketches before developing compositions across different scales, culminating in large, expressive canvases. Her paintings are not literal depictions but reimagined landscapes that blend memory, imagination, and observation.
Raised in the Orkney Isles, Jade draws deeply from its coastal forms, weather, and light - images that recur in her work as sweeping beaches, shifting skies, and elemental horizons. These are layered with influences from the Scottish Central Belt where she now lives, and from travels across Scandinavia, Iceland, Croatia, and France. The result is a body of work that is both deeply personal and universally resonant, evoking places that feel at once familiar and dreamlike.
Through her art, Jade invites viewers into landscapes that transcend a single location or moment, offering instead an emotional and atmospheric journey through memory and imagination.
We regularly exhibit a selection of Jade's work at The Found Gallery - Click here for current availability.
