MARGIE RAMSAY
Margie Ramsay MPhil
Born in the Highlands of Scotland I love vibrant colours and the unique colour spectrum of the Gaelic language which inspires my painting. My works often use a marbling technique to float oil paint on water and are embellishing with alkyd oils, gold, glass or foil.
The jewel that sings bright
Transparent films floated to form pools of red over an orange ground with gold and turquoise relief highlights.
Earth Wind and Fire
Yellow marbled underpainting topped with blue acrylic pour and finished with red alkyd glazes.
Gilded gems
Floated films of colour with pools of alkyd cells finished with a gold glaze.
Seaweed soup
Black plasticised canvas dipped in translucent films of alkyd and finished with silver.
Aurora bubbles
Digital work using Midjourney which was inspired by the aurora borealis.
Take me to the bay
Acrylic pour on canvas.
Green with cells
Small acrylic pour on board.
Blue turbulence
Small acrylic pour on board.
That glowing feeling.
Acrylic and alkyd oil paint.
Opals and ochre
Mixed media on canvas.
Dotz
Mixed media of acrylic, alkyd and foil.
Little Green and tangerine
Alkyd oil produced by marbling using a waterbath with alkyd oil glazes in green, orange and turquoise.
Psychic purple
Multicoloured Acrylic pour with added alkyd oils in purple and turquoise.
Magma mosaic
Water marbelling using mixed media.
Nebular storm
Cellular acrylic pour in purple, pink and blue.
Pennies from Heaven
Oil with gold foil.
Sun spots
Alkyd Oil embellished with mixed media.
St. Columba and the Loch Ness monster
Oil on board.
Shows the story of Saint Columba reprimanding the monster for attacking his servant as he swam in the river Ness to get a boat to carry the saint.
Shows the story of Saint Columba reprimanding the monster for attacking his servant as he swam in the river Ness to get a boat to carry the saint.
Red Resin
Acrylic resin pour on canvas board set in small tray frame of gold wood.
Ruadh (Gaelic for red hair pronounced rooag)
Alkyd oil made using a marbling technique in a waterbath. Finished with 24ct gold leaf.
Turcgorm
Alkyd oil made by floating the paint on a waterbath.
Vermillion
Alkyd oil on Claessens linen. Made by floating the oil paint on a waterbath and dipping the canvas then embellished by embedding tiny millifiore beads in drops of alkyd oil.
The Brown mouse
This was made by floating oil paint on a jelly of carrageen (algae) and finished with alkyd oils and real gold foil.
Tiny Dancer
Oils floated on a water bath and embellished with alkyd oils and gold paint.
Starscape
White marbled on black canvas with silver foil.
Dearg
Oil on canvas. Made by dipping canvas in films of paint floated on a waterbath. Finished with thicker paint drops and glazes.
Goldfish and bubbles
Oil on canvas with irridescent and alkyd oils.