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Feather Duo 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Still LifePosted on 19/11/201204/09/2015No Comments

6 x 6″ (15 x 15 x 4cm) Original painting – mixed media on canvas (acrylic, spray paint, charcoal). A small, semi-abstracted canvas featuring two feathers. This series of petite paintings evolved from a simple sketch of a found feather, and the colours from winter sunset landscape paintings I had been working on previously. The …

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Bothy, Bernera, Isle of Lewis

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: RuinPosted on 18/09/201227/04/2021No Comments

20 x 30″ (50 × 76 × 4 cm) Original mixed media (acrylic and varnished charcoal) on a box frame canvas., with the painting continued onto all sides. This bothy sits on the winding single track road to Bosta Beach on Great Bernera, a tiny island off the West Coast of the Isle of Lewis, …

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A photo at low angle cross the trenches of an archaeological dig site, treating it like a mini landscape in its won right. In the background, out of focus and silhouetted against light in the clouded grey sky are a group of around 20 people in a long continuous row, having a site meeting around the trenches far edge.

Ness of Brodgar People 5

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A black and white abstracted photo showing rock slabs sitting at different angles, forming graceful patterns on an archaeological dig site.

Ness of Brodgar Stonescape 3

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A black and white abstracted photo showing rock slabs sitting at different angles, forming graceful patterns on an archaeological dig site.

Ness of Brodgar Stonescape 2

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A black and white abstracted photo showing rock slabs sitting at different angles, forming graceful patterns on an archaeological dig site.

Ness of Brodgar Stonescape 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A black and white photo of a white man with shirt hair in work clothes, elevated up on a hill of earth and rubble. He is holding a wheelbarrow up and kicking it to release the earth inside onto the pile. specs of dirt are captured mid air.

Ness of Brodgar People 4

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks: Ness of Brodgar, UncategorizedPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A macro photo showing the man made carved straight lines, running at different angles, in the surface of sandstone found at an archaeological dig.

Carved 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A photo of a face of old dressed sandstone in the foreground, in neat focus. It is chipped and worn. In the background two figures are out of focus against a white sky, one is pointing, gesturing a direction.

Ness of Brodgar People 3

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments
A mixed media painting in landscape format of rocks and rubble depicted in washes of muted blue, ochre, red and grey paint and expressive lines in charcoal. Across the bottom of the composition - the foreground - is a dark trench pit, depending into shadow.

Drawing 501: Structure 21, NOB

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of BrodgarPosted on 24/08/201224/08/2015No Comments

I don’t think I have shared this piece, although I may have shared a photo of me painting it… It’s a piece I was asked to do on site at Ness of Bodgar by one of the archaeolgists, for research and experimental purposes. Fiona had the exciting idea to compare archaeological recording (‘planning’) with artistic …

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