SMALL PAINTINGS

ALLT NA BRADHAN

Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, 2022

The other of two small ones (acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 cm) done in one go on the table after messing up on various others. Often the practice makes perfect works!  Assynt hill painting, Allt na Bradhan, meaning ‘burn of the quern(stone)’ named after one of the streams that run off Sàil Garbh (rough heel in English, heel denoting a long slope which ends a chain of peaks) so clear in that morning light, and Sàil Gorm, the blue one.

ALLT NA SAOBHAIDH MÒIRE

Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20  cm, 2022

this little painting is one of a pair of preparatory sketches. The name Allt na Saobhaidh Mòire is from a stream that runs down between the two towers of Quinag. Saobhaidh Mòire means ‘Large fox-den’. Which is the name given to a large hollow on the hillside on the east side of Sàil Ghorm.