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March Incoming Tide, Achmelvich

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 25/09/201515/11/2016No Comments

March Incoming Tide, Achmelvich 20 x 16″ (50 × 40 × 4 cm) Original Painting – Mixed Media On Canvas Created from photo’s, sketches and video made at the beach in Achmelvich, Sutherland (Highlands of Scotland) in March 2014 (previously unseen on the website). We took a trip to the West Coast, travelling across the …

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A square seascape painting in mixed media. A mid-blue sky with loose grey clouds sits over a calm mid-blue sea with gently lapping water, small waves, and In the foreground is a sandy shore in oranges and beiges, scattered with impressionistic seaweed. The style is loose, with extensive use of texture, painterly marks, spray painted stencilled and printed textures (such as grid work, net curtain fabric florals, strips), but the effect is cohesive and not overly busy.

Receding Tide

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 19/03/201404/04/2018No Comments

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 …

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A square format mixed media painting of a beach scene, mostly in shades of mid blue, suggesting low lighting conditions. The foreground is a busy jumble of textural marks with charcoal marks, suggesting of pebbles, sand and beach detritus, all painted in an impressionistic fashion. The sea appears very calm with little movement with reflections of moonlight on its surface. The shy features loose clouds that are partially glowing with captured moonlight.

Evening, Koh Samui

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 24/01/201404/09/2015No Comments

12 x 12″ Mixed media on canvas. Painted from memory and photographs taken on the Thai island of Koh Samui, 2013. Painted using acrylic paint, acrylic spray paint and charcoal. SOLD

Bay of Skaill, Winter, Abstract

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: AbstractPosted on 19/12/201204/09/2015No Comments

20 x 20″ (51 × 51 × 4 cm) Signed Original Artwork – Mixed Media On Canvas From colour sketches made at the Bay of Skaill, Orkney in Winter. I wanted to give something of the feel of the sweep of the bay, the rolling of the waves, and the scattered, fleeting nature of what …

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The Shore at Ballantrushal

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on 19/03/201221/05/2024No Comments

24 x 18″ (46 × 61 × 4 cm) Mixed Media on Canvas – Original Piece of Art From a body of work I completed following a week spent working on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland in February 2012. An original on a deep box frame canvas, with the painting continuing onto all sides. Artist …

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A very tall and narrow canvas, placed upright, featuring a painting with blue background and centralised marks in shades of turquoise and green, with tiny highlights of red showing through the impasto layers.

Treasures Beneath 5

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Artworks: Treasures BeneathPosted on 19/02/201203/09/2015No Comments

36 x 12″ (91 x 30 cm) acrylic on canvas From a series of works inspired by the ocean – it’s movement and changing nature, caught glimpses of what’s below, sea stories, mermaids, selkies and lost treasure. On a chunky edge canvas, with painting continued onto all sides. SOLD  

Treasures Beneath 6

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Artworks: Treasures BeneathPosted on 19/02/201215/11/2016No Comments

20 x 24″ (50 × 60 × 4 cm) Original Acrylic on deep edge, box frame canvas, with the painting continued onto all sides. The 6th painting in this series of works which have been inspired by the ocean – its movement and changing nature, sea stories, mermaids, selkies, glimpses I caught of what is …

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Treasures Beneath 4

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Artworks: Treasures BeneathPosted on 19/02/201215/11/2016No Comments

8 x 10″ (20 × 25 × 4 cm) Original Acrylic on deep edge, box frame canvas, with the painting continued onto all sides. Treasures Beneath 4 is part of a series of abstracts which were inspired by the ocean. It’s movement and changing nature, glimpses caught of what’s below, mermaids, selkies sea stories and …

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A square abstract painting with mid-blue ground. The central portion contains cloud like colour in different both paler and shadowy blues and purples. Selected areas are picked out with brushed marks in silver. The overall impression is of directional marks that make the eye travel around the canvas in loops, or of scattering light glimmering through moving water.

Treasures Beneath 7

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Artworks: Treasures BeneathPosted on 10/02/201215/11/2016No Comments

16 x 16″ (40 × 40 × 4 cm) Original – Acrylic on canvas Treasures Beneath 7 is part of a series of abstract paintings which were inspired by many aspects of the ocean – it’s movement and changing nature, caught glimpses of what’s below, lost treasure, sea stories, mermaids and selkies. Original artwork on …

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A large abstract canvas in portrait format, with a mottled deep blue ground. Painterly, stippled and directionally brushed marks in three select areas of the composition are picked out in metallic gold and bronze, suggesting the idea of the movement of water, and scattered light reflected off shiny objects under the waters surface.

Treasures Beneath 2

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Artworks: Treasures BeneathPosted on 09/02/201225/02/2016No Comments

40 x 30″ (76 × 101 × 4 cm) Original Acrylic on Canvas Part of a series of abstract paintings inspired by the ocean – it’s movement and changing nature, caught glimpses of what’s below, sea stories, mermaids, selkies and lost treasure. On a chunky edged canvas, with the painting continuing onto all sides. From …

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