George Blackie Sticks (1843 – 1938): A Visionary of Scottish Landscape George Blackie Sticks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, in 1843—the son of James Sticks, a respected Edinburgh artist. From an early age, he demonstrated a remarkable talent for capturing the grandeur and subtlety of Scotland’s highlands and lochs, establishing himself as one of Northumberland's most distinguished painters by the turn of the…