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‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’

173 'From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret', Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 30 x 30 cm

‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’

 

‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 30 x 30 cm

I was recently asked to add a couple of paintings to the selection I have hanging in Braidwoods Restaurant near Dalry.  This is one of the five pieces they now have and it is based on the hills above Loch Turret just to the north of Crieff.  This is an excellent walking area and a wonderful place to see mountain hares.

Anyway, Braidwoods is one of the top restaurants in North Ayrshire and so if you’re visiting it, do look out for my paintings while you’re there.

Braidwoods is around half an hour’s pleasant drive from Glasgow towards the West Coast of Scotland and It is based in Dalry, Ayrshire, KA24 4LN

You can contact the restaurant on 01294 833 544

“From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret”

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"From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret"

‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 30 x 30 cm

I’m not sure whether to describe this as a drawing or a painting!  It probably has more scribbled pastel in it than paint and it certainly feels more like a drawing.  Anyway, I was trying to get something that put over a little of the scratchy nature of these upland heather moors especially as we experienced them with a slight scattering of snow on them.  This early snow catches the wild life out a little too.  When we were on these hills the other week, Nita spotted two mountain hares …one, in its full winter coat of white, and another still dressed in its summer cart of brown fur.  So long as the white one sat on the patches of snow and the brown one sat in the heather they were ok, but if they moved onto the wrong ground they could be seen more easily.