house – Nicki MacRae

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: Landscape 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 …

Winter Skies and Ruin, by Callanish

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: Ruin 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 …