Original artwork description:

Acrylic painting depicting the Church in Kensaleyre on the Isle of Skye.
Been meaning to do a painting of this church for some time now -now I've finally finished it. It is a church I have driven by many times and also attended occasionally.
The church is in a very prominent position on flat land with the sea loch- (Loch Snisort) behind.
The church is old over -200 years and it sits close to the main road between Portree and Uig.
With this painting I have tried to show how the church has over the years become part of the landscape i.e. not just a building stuck on top of it.
I have tried to do this by making the sunlight on the water merge into the church walls and also by making the sky merge into the church roof.
By doing this I hope I have created a painting where the church appears to become part of the landscape and there is no separation between the building and the landscape in which it sits.
This technique makes the church become almost invisible from some aspects and sunken into the landscape.
As with most of my recent paintings the sky has been created by applying wet glazes and removing areas to reveal sunlight pools on water underneath.
This painting is finished in two coats of protective varnish.

Materials used:

acrylic paint

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