About this artwork
This landscape was painted from sketches Redpath made during a family holiday to the Isle of Skye in 1946. Kyleakin is a village that was only accessible by ferry until the Skye Bridge was built in 1995. In this painting of a huddle of houses clinging to the bleak landscape, surrounded by stormy water, Redpath evokes the community’s remoteness and dependence on the land and sea. As with many of her still lifes, the scene is somewhat distorted with the picture plane tilted forward. The use of a palette knife reinforces the quality of the harsh landscape and highlights her increasing interest in the developments of abstract painting; she was influenced by artists such as Tàpies and Riopelle with their bold, expressionistic handling of paint.
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Landscape at Kyleakin
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date created:About 1958 - 1960
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materials:Oil on board
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measurements:71.20 x 91.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1962
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accession number:GMA 814
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Anne Redpath
Anne Redpath
Redpath was born in Galashiels and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1920 she married and moved to France, devoting much of the next fourteen years to her family and doing little painting. In the mid-1930s she returned to Scotland, settling in Hawick in the Borders. Redpath admired the French...