Oran Wishart

Oran Wishart (b. 1980) lives in Biggar, Scotland. He studied Painting at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and Fine Art at the University of Barcelona, Spain. 

His paintings often reference landscapes and journeys between abstraction and figurative painting. Fragments of architecture, recurring images, pattern, people, places and journeys are themes in bodies of work that also reference literature and poetry; a desire to look inwards towards the dream that coexists with the awake state.

Wishart has exhibited work in the UK and abroad. Collaboration and correspondence form part of his wider working practice and he has completed residencies in Scotland and Iceland. His painting ‘Desert Solitaire’ was the cover artwork for Django Django’s album, 'Glowing in the Dark' in 2021 and his work is included in many private collections.