‘Callanish’ – mixed media on canvas, Nicki MacRae Art, 2014.

A landscape painting in acrylics on a portrait orientation canvas. The lower two thirds of the canvas are taken by a bleak, textural brown hillside with little features except marks scratched into wet paint, suggesting grasses. Above, on top of the hill is a stone circle of 22 tall stones with irregular shapes and height, seen in silhouette against a delicate sky of cloudy lilacs and pinks, with a faint area yellowish sun. The point of view is from below, giving a feeling of smallness, distance and perhaps inferring reverence.

‘Callanish’ – mixed media on canvas, Nicki MacRae Art, 2014.