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Kinlochbervie
1966
- Scottish Art
Kinlochbervie is a small fishing village in the north-west of Scotland. As in many of Bellany?s early paintings, this work combines sea and religious imagery. The fish gutters in the foreground are in a `Last Supper? arrangement and a figure at the top right carries a yoke which gives him the appearance of being crucified. It is one of the first paintings in which Bellany shows a single boat with fishermen outlined against a clear sky. The boat is used symbolically to represent a conveyor of human fate like the mythical boat used to ferry the dead across the river Styx to Hades.
