pen – 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 …

A pen and ink with mixed media drawing of a prehistoric pottery beaker such as found UK ancient burials. It has a bulbous bottom and top half that flares outward, like an inverted cone. it's form melts into the background colours around it, mottled browns and blues, almost like its half burred, and gestural ink marks and sponges end a sense of energy and dynamism.

Beaker Abstract II

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Illustration 03/05/201122/08/2015No Comments

16 x 20″ Mixed media on smoked paper. Inspired by drawings made at Kilmartin House Museum of pre-historic pottery and it’s decorations, and colours inspired by Kilmartin in Spring. Not currently available for sale, but please ‘contact me’ to regster your interest in purchasing. Prints of this piece are available.

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Back of Stromness, Hazy Ruin

Beaker Abstract II

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