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Rannoch Moor Cottage Ruins

by D. Bruce Bennett

Crofter's Cottage on Rannoch Moor

In this soft piece of Scottish art, sheets of gray mist and rain wash over lush, spring-green Scottish moorland. A tiny stream begins in the foreground, winding through it all, to lead the viewer's eye to the ubiquitous crofter's cottage ruins seen so often in the Scottish Highlands.

Once an area full of wee villages, this is Rannoch Moor, where depopulation occurred for many of the same reasons it occurred throughout the Highlands. The last crofters who left this stone cottage may have been evicted in the infamous Highland Clearances, or they may have left of their own will simply because of food shortages, a wool market collapse, or...?

Click for larger view of Crofter's Cottage on Rannoch Moor.)

It's a "driech" day, for sure – miserable, cold, wet. Bruce's decision to omit as many details as possible lets the viewer imagine them through the blurry mist. That would be the same mist on the same Rannoch Moor of Kidnapped, courtesy of Robert Louis Stevenson. It looks wild and remote because it is. In fact, train engineers preparing for the first railway through the area (in 1889) got themselves lost and had to be rescued.

Plenty of Scottish clans have made Rannoch Moor their stomping grounds: Robertsons, Menzies, MacGregors, Camerons, MacDonalds, Stewarts. Are you descended from one of these clans? Would your ancestors have been at home and confident in this wild and remote part of Scotland? Then you should have this watercolor-style painting in your home, don't you think?

Bruce has framed this piece of Scottish art in an antique frame with a time-faded crimson velvet liner. If crimson is your color, and you love shabby-chic antique frames, make sure you choose both the painting and the antique frame PayPal buttons. This is truly an antique gilded plaster over wood frame – with all the little dings and cracks you'd have if you were 120 years old. We'll be happy to send close-up photos of the frame, if you'd like.

If you have other ideas in mind for setting off this wee picture of Scotland, choose the PayPal button titled "Rannoch Moor painting" only, and we'll happily sell you Crofter's Cottage on Rannoch Moor unframed.

Have your own snap from The Mother Land that you'd like converted into a piece of fine art? Check out our Commissioned Paintings page and tell us what you think you'd like.

Crofter's Cottage on Rannoch Moor Picture of Scotland
Medium: acrylic on 300-pound, cold-pressed watercolor paper
Image Dimensions: 14" w. x 11" h.
Mat: none
Glass: yes
Frame (Optional): 3.5" w. antique (circa 1880s) gilded plaster over wood with faded crimson velvet liner; 21" w. 18" h.

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