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Amethyst iPhone Macro Lens Photo || Nicki MacRae Art BLOG

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The Clootie Well

The Clootie Well

Mark Making - Nicki MacRae, Artist

Mark Making

Nicki MacRae's Art Studio in the January Snow

Studio in the Snow

New Art Studio in Progress - Nicki MacRae Art

Building a new Art Studio

Drugs and Lipbalm - being an Expert Patient

Becoming an Expert Patient

Sky Art Landscape Artist of the Year 2016

Tears and TV

Dots No25

'Dots 26' abstract painting by Nicki MacRae

Dots No26

'Dots 22' abstract painting by Nicki MacRae

Dots No22

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Highlands Scotland

Along my favourite stretch of coast, there this ga

Along my favourite stretch of coast, there this gap in the shoreline rocks. Despite being a scant arm-width across, it always makes me stop to appreciate the window to the sea that it creates.

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Video Description: a warm winter light falls on latte-coloured, low shoreline rocks. They show a full-depth cleft in the middle of the shot, through which the bright blue ocean can be seen. Waves lap gently into this tiny gorge.]

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Some of the sea pottery shards that I found last w

Some of the sea pottery shards that I found last week... Honestly my lounge looks like a workshop just now 😬 - things being washed, things being dried, things being sorted - it’s just as well we can’t have any guests! 😂
“‘ere mind me artefacts!” 😳
(Just FYI, despite the Scottish surname, I have a strong West Country accent - that’s ‘pirate’ for those outside the UK 😂)

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Image Description: a rustic wooden tray holds a number of sea-worn pottery shards, grouped by colour - blues, reds and yellows, grey and brown. The shards vary in shape, roughness and size, and include transfer ware, sponge ware, stoneware and porcelains.]

#SeaPottery #SeaGlass #BeachCombing #SeaGlassLove #OceanTreasures #SeaglassCollector #SeaGlassHunter #BeachGlass #BeachComber #SeaGlassHunting #Ceramics #HistoryLove #HistoryGeek #HistoryLover #CollageArtist #ArtistsOfInstagram #ArtistLife #ArtistLifestyle #BeachLife

I miss the sun of last week - it feels like we’v

I miss the sun of last week - it feels like we’ve fallen backwards into Winter again. But noticing and marking the changes in the quality of light through the days does give a sense of passing time and, importantly, progression 🧡

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Video Description: grass seed heads in close-up shiver and sway in the breeze against a golden pre-sunset Winter sky, which is cloudless. Yellow light highlights the tiny seeds and makes them glow.]

#All_Sunsets #InstaSunsets #NatureLovers #Nature_Lovers #NaturesBeauty #Sky_Brilliance #SkyPorn #SkyLovers #Sky_Perfection #Sunrise_And_Sunsets #Sunset_Captures #AllNatureShots #ArtOfVisuals #EarthOfficial #Nature #lEarthFocus #Nature_Brilliance #Nature_Obsession #nature_hub #Nature_Seekers #Nature_Perfection #NatureAddict #NatureLover #NatureOnly #NaturePhoto #HighlandsOfScotland #ScottishHighlands #HighlandsScotland #ipreview via @preview.app

My darling husband found one of the last remaining

My darling husband found one of the last remaining tiny patches of snow... so he could throw a snowball at me! 😂

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Image Description: a male figure stands in silhouette against a hazy golden sky with a winter sun. In the shadow of a field edge bank, a patch of unmelted snow sits. A snowball is flying through the air in the foreground. Small pieces of snow are flaking off as it flies, catching the sun.]

#Winter #WinterWalks #WinterSun #WinterMood #WinterSeason #SnowBall #RelationshipGoals #TheGreatOutdoors #GreetTheOutdoors #Outdoorsy #LifeOutdoors #ExploreMore #LifeOfAdventures #NeverStopExploring #SpendMoreTimeInTheWild #UKHiking #UKHiker #OutdoorsLife #HighlandsOfScotland #ScottishHighlands #HighlandsScotland #Insta_Scotland #ScotlandsBeauty #ScotlandLover #ExploreScotland #LoveScotland #UnlimitedScotland #Scotland_GreatShots #Epic_Scotland via @preview.app

I couldn’t quite resolve this one. But I got the

I couldn’t quite resolve this one. But I got there in the end... I think the idea of the aqua coloured sea glass that I keep collecting had got into my head 😂

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

—> scroll for the process video

[Image Description: A square format digital abstract painting. Enclosed by a sea of hazy aqua sits a central, irregular shaped zone of marks and colour. Grass-green, ochre and orange dominate. Dots, triangles, scrubbed paintbrush marks and dainty repetitive patterns mix and overlay each other.]

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Grasses - there’s so much to love 💛. Their si

Grasses - there’s so much to love 💛. Their sinuous dances when bright gusts invigorate them. Their whispered songs. The way they set wasteland and garden alike to order ☺️.

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Image Description: a photo of the abstracted texture of long grasses growing on sand dunes. Their sandy-coloured stems grow is diverging directions. They almost look like hair. They appear soft yet strong and upright.]

#Coastal #BeachLife #CoastalLiving #Seaside #CoastalWalk #CoastalPath #CoastalPhotography #CoastalLife #CoastalVibes #CoastalViews #Beach #BeachTherapy #BeachLover #BeachVibes #AtTheBeach #SaltEscape #SaltLife #BeachMood #BeachPhotography #AllNatureShots #ArtOfVisuals #EarthOfficial #Nature #lEarthFocus #Nature_Brilliance #Nature_Obsession #nature_hub #Nature_Perfection #Grasses via @preview.app

I really like this ☺️. I can’t remember maki

I really like this ☺️. I can’t remember making it 🤦‍♀️ - this is the way my brain works 🤷‍♀️😂. Thankfully I’d saved the evidence to reference and share 👍. Sometimes these brain blips create wonderful ‘surprise’ moments, where I get to experience things a second time afresh ✨

#BrainSurgerySurvivor #IntercranialHypotension #BrainInjury

🎨 Swipe for the process video —>

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Image Description: A square-format digital abstract painting. From a deep, rich green ground, different, somewhat disparate semi-transparent elements arise as if from mist - scrubby areas, brushed-type marks, hard carved stripes. Towards the right-side of the painting these shapes become more solid. They reveal zones of colour and complex texture in soft greens, ochre, sky blue and vivid orange. The marks sit in a balance, where suggestions of movement in different directions ultimately cancel each other out to create harmony.]

#MarkMaking #AbstractExpressionism #ArtForTheSoul #ArtOfTheDay #TodaysArtReport #AbstractArt #AbstractArtist #DailyArts #ArtShare #IGArt #abstractart_daily #InstaArtOfTheDay #ArtistsOnInstagram #WomenInArt #ArtistsWithDisabilities #CreativityMatters #AbstractPainting #PaintDaily #CreativeHappyLife #ExploreColour #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #DigitalAbstract #ProcreateArt #DigitalArtists #ProcreatePocket via @preview.app

I believe in being vocal about mental health matte

I believe in being vocal about mental health matters. It’s not always the easiest thing to do - we instinctively want to conceal and protect our soft undersides... But I honestly believe that by being honest, we help others to be honest. And we also unlock our own regenerative mental processes. We can’t move past what we can’t talk about 💛

I’m still reeling from an important medical appointment a week ago which should’ve been cause for celebration - the results of my brain surgery 3 years ago are being seen. My brain has more space within my skull & my spinal cord is under less pressure from the cyst within it, which has shrunk visibly. This protects my brain & safeguards functions from the neck down (though, of course, it can’t ‘wind-back’ nerve damage already caused).

But the *flip side* of this is that we were not expecting me to still be experiencing so much head pain at this stage. It was always expected that I would see improvement in this pain over the course of years, and eventually it would go away. It now looks like things are probably as good as they’re ever going to get, and the pain that I live with is either all down to damage which has been done (and can’t be undone), or due to a cause too risky to investigate or fix (I’ve had a lot of procedures opening the membrane around my brain and spinal cord, any one of which could be causing a leak of the brains protective fluid).

The narritive is now ‘we can’t fix everything and you’re going to have to live with this pain’. A pain that can be so severe it leaves me living a life lying flat in bed for endless days every month. That often renders me unable to speak, see, think or in any way partake in life. That makes life impossible to plan or predict. That makes every task difficult and steals away pleasure. And that on top of the already constant, body-wide nerve pain I live with (which makes even a hug potentially unbearable agony).

I’m 42. I might live another 40 years if I’m lucky. Another half a life in horrendous pain.

I’m a survivor and the positivity will kick back in - but I recognise that I have to allow myself a moment to feel all the emotions I need to about this 💔

There’s a spot of the local coast where average,

There’s a spot of the local coast where average, buff-coloured sand is undercut by the waves, revealing deep red sand underneath. I never tire of this magic...

(And of course you know how I love layers and revealing colour underneath)

#LiveLifeInTechnicolour

[Image ID: sea water swirls with white foam in a shot looking directly down at the sand of the shore. A ledge of beige-coloured sand drops away several inches to a lower level, where the sea has washed away the sand. As the water draws back, a lower layer of sand is revealed, which is deep iron red. ]

#Waves #Coastal #BeachLife #CoastalLiving #Seaside #CoastalWalk #CoastalPath #CoastalPhotography #CoastalLife #CoastalVibes #CoastalViews #HighlandsOfScotland #ScottishHighlands #HighlandsScotland #BeautifulDestinations #ExploreMore #Wonderful_Places #Insta_Scotland #ScotlandsBeauty #ScotlandLover #ExploreScotland #LoveScotland #UnlimitedScotland #Scotland_GreatShots #Epic_Scotland #ColourLovers #ColourLove #ExploreColour #ColourSparksJoy via @preview.app

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