sunset – 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 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: Landscape 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

Winter Sunset Abstract 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Abstract, Uncategorized 19/12/201221/05/2024No Comments

Easter Ross Snowscape I

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Landscape 19/12/201215/11/2016No Comments

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 …