What to see this week: the landscape

Oliver Akers Douglas is at Portland Gallery, 3, Bennet Street, London SW1, until December 21 (www.portlandgallery.com; 020–7493 1888) A new body of works by the landscape painter best known for his exhilarating skies—the result of years studying cloud formations in the often challenging conditions of working en plein air. Oliver Akers Douglas’s textured and dynamic surfaces record his experience of landscape, from battling extreme weather in wild places to exploring the rolling downlands around his Wiltshire home. With his canvas attached to the side of a specially modified Land Rover or, sometimes, in places only accessible by foot, wheeling an adapted golf trolley, this resourceful artist travels from his familiar Dorset, Wiltshire (above, Wheat Thorn Barley Beech; Hindon) and Devon to capture Connemara, Iona and the Swiss alps.

Frances Macdonald: A Hebridean Painter is at The Scottish Gallery, 16, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, until December 22 (0131–558 1200; www.scottish-gallery.co.uk) Another artist who has followed in the footsteps of the Scottish Colourists to paint the scintillating seascapes of Iona shows her latest works—mostly luminous views of the West Highlands and Islands.

The Landscape of Home is at Prospect Gallery, Arncliffe, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, until January 31, 2019 (07894 797300; www.kittynorth.com) Kitty North has been described as having ‘an extraordinary ability for revealing the pulse and spirituality of her subjects’—mostly the people and places of Yorkshire. Her current exhibition highlights the beauty and drama of the Dales, with its picturesque villages, farmhouses hugging the sides of hills and wild open spaces.

Wilhelmina Barns-graham: Sea, Rock, Earth and Ice is at Graves Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, until March 16, 2019 (0114–278 2600; www.museums-sheffield.org.uk) Spanning four decades, these works convey the influence of diverse geological regions—the Cornish coast, the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote, the Italian hills, the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland—on the work of Barns-graham (1912–2004), one of our foremost Modern British artists, who developed an abstract language to express her fascination with topography and immersion in the natural world.