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Mackie | Where we Belong

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The Scottish Highlands offer a suitably atmospheric, picturesque and evocative location for Mackie’s latest body of work, Where We Belong (2016). It is a place that the artist knows well, having grown up with views of hills and fields on every side of his family home in the Cairngorms. It is a landscape that he himself views not through romantic eyes, however, but rather in terms of more practical concerns – how long will it take to walk through to the other side of the valley before nightfall; how marshy are the moorlands and must they be circumnavigated or can they be traversed on foot; how perilous is the icy snow that covers the scree that spills down the hillsides. It is a treacherous place for the ill-prepared rambler or dewy-eyed sightseer, and even presents dangers for the locals if they let down their guard for a moment against the harsh daily challenges of living in such a place. In Merlin (2016), the artist depicts a burnt-out, dilapidated small stone dwelling – it looks lik

Mackie | Where we Belong Copyright @ Andrew McIntosh Where We Belong December 2016 with Bo Lee Gallery at Pulse Miami Selected Works Rose & Thorns oil on linen 250x180cm The Raven oil on linen 180x120cm Three Sisters oil on linen 140x100cm Merlin oil on linen 150x110cm The Black Horse oil on linen 180x130cm WHERE WE BELONG - Matt H Price The Scottish Highlands offer a suitably atmospheric, picturesque and evocative location for Mackie’s latest body of work, Where We Belong (2016). It is a place that the artist knows well, having grown up with views of hills and fields on every side of his fami

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