This painting is an attempt to give a meaning of scale to Stac Lee in the Kildan archipelago. Photographs fail to express the sheer scale of the highest sea stac in the British Isles, so paints must be used to help set the scene more forcefully. In a metaphysical twist I tow the L’Isola San Michele in Venice 1,980 km for comparison. All heights are to scale.
Acrylic on canvas (40x51cm)
PRIVATE COLLECTION
[…] The question of scale, in particular for the left hand sea stack (Stac Lee) was kept deliberately ambiguous in the context of the overall composition. I deal with the question of scale in a more dramatic way with a later work in which Stac Lee is co-located in exact scale to the 40m campanile of Chiesa San Michele in Venice. […]