Alan Reed produces paintings that transports you to the places you love and the people you hold dear.
Visit Alan Reed Studio & Art Gallery to find your favourite piece of artwork.
(by appointment 01661 820626)
Over the last 40 years he has developed his own distinctive painting style that is instantly recognisable.
Alan’s landscapes and cityscapes on this site are painted in his unique, fluid style. Alan Reed from Newcastle Ponteland captures the atmosphere of different settings from the drama of city life to the serenity and beauty of a rural landscape in watercolour or oils.
British artist Alan Reed, was born in Northumberland, into a family with a history of painting and fell in love with watercolours at the age of 15.
He trained in art and design at Newcastle College and spent the early part of his career producing artist impressions of new building projects for architects.
Discover the beauty and atmosphere of the world through the art of Alan Reed. Each piece captures a unique sense of place — from tranquil landscapes to vibrant city scenes — painted with the precision, passion, and light that define Alan’s distinctive style.
Original Paintings
Own a one-of-a-kind work of art, created by Alan in his signature watercolour and oil techniques. Every painting is an original expression of mood and memory, ready to bring warmth, colour, and meaning to your home or collection.
🖌️ Each original comes signed, beautifully presented, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Limited Edition Prints
Enjoy the beauty of Alan’s most popular works in high-quality, limited edition prints. Produced using fine art giclée printing on archival paper, each print retains the detail, texture, and richness of the original painting.
🎨 Every print is hand-signed, numbered, and part of an exclusive edition — once sold out, no more will be produced.
Landscapes
For many years I’ve practised the regular discipline of life drawing to sharpen my skills at drawing from observation. Although I have specialised in watercolour for over 40 years, I also work in oil paints, charcoal, pencil, gold leaf and acrylic.
The Alan Reed Art Gallery was founded in 1996. Since then it has had a permanent exhibition of Paintings on display. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity of exhibiting throughout the wold including UK, Scotland, USA, Italy, Oman and Kuwait.
My subjects are varied including landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, architecture and portraits. The most recent commissions include the Lakes Distillery, Oman, Mallorca and ancient Roman architecture. It was early in my career that the quality of my work received national recognition with the selection of a number of cityscapes in the Sunday Times watercolour competition for three successive years.
I was also shortlisted for “Artist of the Year” for Artists & Illustrators Magazine in 2014.
With over 40 years of experience in teaching Art & Design I give private lessons in drawing and painting to children and adults of all ages and stages.
Regarding portraits I prefers to paint from life however, I can work equally as well from photographs.
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Awards
2018 “Watercolour in Oman Landscape” https://www.omanobserver.om/oman-in-water-colour/
2014 Member of the Fine Art Trade Guild Alan Reed shortlisted for “Artist of the Year
2013 Guild Artist Member Alan Reed wins “The Artist’s Prize” in the Royal Watercolour Society Competition
2013 Journal Article – Faith moves artist Alan Reed to church display
2013 Winner of “The Artist’s Prize” in the Royal Watercolour Society Competition 2013 with his painting “Jebel Akhdar, Oman“.
2011 One of the finals with his painting of “Grey Street” in the “Show me the Monet” programme shown on BBC2.
2010 1st runner up in “The Bath Prize” with his original painting of “The Royal Crescent, Bath“.
“The Roman Baths by Torchlight” was also highly commended.
One of Alan’s photographs of Venice Regata Storica is featured in a bookby JoAnn Locktov published by bellafigurapublications “Dream of Venice in Black and White”
Alan Reed’s approach to painting is described in Theodora Philcox’s book titled “Landscapes in Watercolour”. This is an inspirational book which features the work of 23 leading watercolourist’s from around the world.
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