Hope Blamire was born in Ayrshire in 1975. She studied Illustration and Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee) graduating in 1998. She has since lived in France, Canada, Egypt and Malawi where she taught Art for four years before returning to the UK to teach at a school in Bath. However her "home" will always be on the West Coast of Scotland

She specialises in scottish island landscapes and some of her paintings are so lifelike it is hard to tell the difference from a photograph. Her paintings are very much in the Scottish colourist tradition. She produces bright, vibrant pieces which successfully captures the atmosphere and feeling of the Scottish landscape. Her preferred medium to paint with are oils but she also uses collage and occasionally acrylics.

Hope is invariably drawn and inspired by the Scottish landscape. The west coast of Scotland where black volcanic rocks are to be found on the beaches are a particularly favourite subject. She travels around the west coast of Scotland, often taking as many as 50,000 photos in a year. From these many images she will then pick a favourite to inspire the next painting.

In addition to Red Rag art gallery Hope Blamire art work has been exhibited at other British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Hope Blamire artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.