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Blossom

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: AbstractPosted on 09/05/201415/03/2016No Comments

Blossom 3

by Nicki MacRaeUncategorizedPosted on 19/03/201415/03/2016No Comments
A long painting featuring rolling fields full of impressionistic flowers and grasses, leading to a house and attached ruined outbuildings in the middle ground. These are painted in shades of purples and browns with pen and ink highlighting sleeted architectural detail, such as window frames nd roof slates. The substantial farmhouse is two stories, sturdy built and has multiple windows and chimney pots. One outbuilding has a missing roof. The sky is an indistinct haze of muted pastel colours suggesting bright light diffused by extensive cloud. lots of texture has been used throughput including spray painting through textiles, physical daubs of paint and sketches lines added over the paint.

Back of Stromness, Hazy Ruin

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 26/02/201404/09/2015No Comments

I stumbled across this building on the outskirts of Stromness on a Summer evening stroll when working in Orkney in the summer of 2012. It had been a long day and I was tired, so I hastily snapped a photo, almost over my shoulder, just to record the moment. The sun was going down and …

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Wet track, Sutherland Hillside

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 25/01/201422/03/2016No Comments
A square format mixed media painting of a beach scene, mostly in shades of mid blue, suggesting low lighting conditions. The foreground is a busy jumble of textural marks with charcoal marks, suggesting of pebbles, sand and beach detritus, all painted in an impressionistic fashion. The sea appears very calm with little movement with reflections of moonlight on its surface. The shy features loose clouds that are partially glowing with captured moonlight.

Evening, Koh Samui

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 24/01/201404/09/2015No Comments

12 x 12″ Mixed media on canvas. Painted from memory and photographs taken on the Thai island of Koh Samui, 2013. Painted using acrylic paint, acrylic spray paint and charcoal. SOLD

Sunrise, Deerness, Orkney

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, UncategorizedPosted on 19/01/201422/03/2016No Comments
A colourful and vibrant painting of a young girl, head and shoulders, in charcoal and acrylic with parts that have been spray painted through stencils, adding texture. She wears a floppy hat that matches her copper coloured hair and looks down, seeming somewhat sad.

Portrait of Freya, 2013

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Life Drawing & FigurativePosted on 28/07/201322/08/2015No Comments

Study in mixed media on canvas board, A3.

Bay of Skaill, Winter, Abstract

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: AbstractPosted on 19/12/201204/09/2015No Comments

20 x 20″ (51 × 51 × 4 cm) Signed Original Artwork – Mixed Media On Canvas From colour sketches made at the Bay of Skaill, Orkney in Winter. I wanted to give something of the feel of the sweep of the bay, the rolling of the waves, and the scattered, fleeting nature of what …

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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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