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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 portrait orientation landscape painting featuring three very tall standing stones of rough grey rock dominating the composition. in the foreground is a scattered collection of low rocks. Gestural marks suggest stubby grass growing around, and the sky is thick with cloud. The whole composition is painted in eerie soft greens and greys.

Callanish Detail, February 2012

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: RuinPosted on 19/08/201215/11/2016No Comments

18 x 24″ (46 × 61 × 4 cm) Orignal painting – acrylic on box frame canvas, with the sides painted white.  This painting was begun in the old farmhouse beside the Callanish stones (Isle of Lewis, Scotland) and completed back in my studio. I spent a week in February 2012 studying the astone circles …

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Winter Skies and Ruin, by Callanish

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: RuinPosted on 19/08/201222/03/2016No Comments

20 x 24″ (50 × 60 × 4 cm) Original – Mixed Media on Canvas. An original canvas called Winter Skies and Ruin, by Callanish. This crumbling house was on the skyline distant from the Callanish stones (Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland), beside which I stayed for a week in February 2012. I vowed …

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A landscape painting with lots of simulated texture in acrylic paints, spray paint, charcoal and artists crayons showing a stone circle. The tall stones are closest at the right and stretch away in an arc to the left, getting smaller and more distant. They're of rough, lichen covered grey rock with cracks and texture. A path of worn short grass runs directly in front of them, fading into rich red and purple heathers to the centre of the circle, in the left of the painting. The sky is pale blues and lurid yellows, cloudy with a hint or rain or snow.

Ring of Brodgar, Wild Bright Weather

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: RuinPosted on 01/06/201221/05/2024No Comments

20 x 24″ (51 x 61 x 4cm) Mixed media on canvas. This painting came from work I did on a Winter trip to Orkney. I love the light and the skies in Orkney, and this tries to capture the moment when cloud cover and drizzle clear for a fleeting moment to illuminate the landscape …

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