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Bothy, Bernera, Isle of Lewis

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

A landscape painting in acrylics with charcoal drawing fin soft tones of grey and green, featuring a ruinous single story cottage front and fore, made of rough blocks of grey rock. It has no roof and weak sunlight shins through its two bare open windows. Grasses grow from the tops of its walls and its two chimneys. its surrounded by scrubby grasses and the sky is grey and heavily clouded.

Roofless Ruin, Ballantrushal, Lewis

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape, Artworks: Ruin 20/08/201215/11/2016No Comments

20 x 30″ (76.2 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm) Original – Mixed media (acrylic and varnished charcoal) on a box frame canvas. Roofless Ruin, Ballantrushal, Lewis – During my February 2012 trip to the Isle of Lewis, I decided to visit the Clach an Trushal which is the tallest standing stone in Scotland. As I …