Poem – Tarbat Ness Lighthouse (Haiku)
POETRY Tarbat Ness Lighthouse Flash, flash, flash, flash, pause.Your comforting staccatowelcomes me homeward. by Nicki MacRae, April 2021.
Where My Head Is At…
Ack, it’s a hard one? How personal is too much? To share health-related stuff or not? Nobody want’s to read a depressing blog post, but also health-stuff is a big part of whats going on in my life – creative and otherwise – just now… I’m just back from a couple of hospital visits – …
Ballone Castle
Ballone Castle sits out on the wild and windswept Tarbat Peninsula, near the villages of Portmahomack and Rockfield. This far tip of the peninsula projects so out in to the North Sea that it forms a favourite spot for spotting dolphins and whales (and, if you ask my daughters, mermaids). Even though we live only …
Receding Tide
20 x 20″ (51 × 51 × 4 cm) Original – Acrylic and varnished charcoal on a deep edge box frame canvas, with the painting continued onto all sides. Receding Tide – From photo’s and memories at one of my local beaches in Easter Ross in the Highlands of Scotland. The sea is retreating as …
Winter Sunset Abstract 1
Easter Ross Snowscape I
20 x 24″ (50 × 60 × 4 cm) Original Painting – Mixed Media On Canvas A Winter sunset in Easter Ross over fields on the Tain peninsula, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland, near the artists home. Rendered in mixed media, on a box frame canvas with the painting continued onto all sides. Signed on rear …
Family
Family portrait using natural light at the end of the afternoon. Taken in Scotsburn Wood near Tain, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland.
Rain on the Firth
16 x 32″ (40 x 80cm) Acrylic on canvas. Loose brushstrokes convey the storm that sweeps down the Dornoch Firth from the Kyle of Sutherland and Ardgay and Bonar Bridge towards Tain and Dornoch. Painted from photographs and memories from a vantage point on the A9 Dornoch Bridge crossing – no sketches, it was too …
Loch Glascarnoch
Landscape photo taken in January looking over Loch Glascarnoch on the road between Ullapool and Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
Redpoint Beach
Landscape photograph featuring Redpoint Beach near Gairloch, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland, taken in Summer.