Crofters With Salted Fish

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Sarah Bramley
Edinburgh, Scotland
Acrylic on Board
42 x 29.7cm
NFS
sarahbramley@me.com
www.sarahbramley.co.uk/ART
www.facebook.com/SarahBramleyArtist

Inspired by a time in Shetland when crofting was the way of life, I aim to evoke an atmosphere of nostalgia. I tried to capture the hardship of the lives of the crofters by portraying the interior as a dark, smoky room, while using colour to make the painting aesthetically pleasing.
I painted from 1930's postcards of Shetland, and mirrored the composition from the postcard, building up washes of acrylic over oil pastels to create an interesting surface.

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