POETRY Blue & White Pottery Fourteen tiny pottery piecesall arranged in artful alignment.Remeberence of endless hours,imperceptible strides in mental silence.Of eyes made dry and hands made wet,glistening promise and rewarded faith.My heart swells with these ragged scraps,a palmful of patterns on parts of plates. by Nicki MacRae, January 2022
Mixed media on board. A piece inspired by a worked bone fragment discovered whilst I was on site.
Glasses and book left on a desk in ‘Loch View’, the house that stands next to the dig site and acts as ‘dig HQ’.
20 x 24″ (51 × 61 × 4 cm) Original – mixed media (acrylic and varnished charcoal) on a box frame canvas, with the painting continued onto all sides. Carn Liath Broch sits beside the A9 highway between Golspie and Brora, North of my home in Tain, Scotland. Although dating from the Iron Age the …
18 x 24″ (45 x 60cm) Mixed media on canvas – acrylic and charcoal on box frame canvas. I painted this following a visit to Dun Caroloway Broch on the Isle of Lewis. It was a cold February day, damp and dull. The space under the remains of one of the winding staircases in the …
14 x 36″ (40 x 40 x 4 cm) Original painting in acrylic on a linen canvas, framed. Inspired by my visits to the Stoneworks Early Archetecture Project in Caithness, where community members and archaeologists worked to recreate sections of replica ancient broch tower wall. Inspiration for this piece came from colour sketches made on site. …
Article about the STONEworks experiemental archaeology project, reproducing a life-size section of an Iron Age broch at Spittal Quarry, Caithness in 2011. I was a visiting artist at the project, and blogged about my experience here. Link to newspaper article here.
On Friday I headed back up the road to the STONEworks Early Architecture Project at Spittal, Caithness to lend a hand with the broch building ( you can read more about brochs and the project here in a previous post). I must say again what a absolutely lovely team there are on site, and thanks …
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip an hour and a half up the road to Caithness to drop in on an exciting experimental archaeology project. Members of the Caithness Archaeological Trust (CAT), experts from AOC Archaeology, the Archie Sinclair Fossil Centre, and volunteers from the community and further afield are working …
16 x 20″ Mixed media on smoked paper. Inspired by drawings made at Kilmartin House Museum of pre-historic pottery and it’s decorations, and colours inspired by Kilmartin in Spring. Not currently available for sale, but please ‘contact me’ to regster your interest in purchasing. Prints of this piece are available.