A lone Norse longship moves across glass-still Hebridean waters, its red-and-cream sail rising like a banner against a towering blue sky. The reflection below doubles the sail into a quiet herald’s flag, turning sea and sky into a single field of colour and light. This square fine art canvas holds the room the way a story holds attention—calm on the surface, charged underneath.
The title, “First Keel at Cille Pheadair,” marks this scene as a threshold moment: the imagined first Viking keel nosing into the bays around Cille Pheadair, foreshadowing the Norse-Gael world that would follow. The stillness of the water and the disciplined stripes of the sail speak to courage, calculation, and a people willing to cross unknown seas. It is a quiet saga about arrival, ancestry, and the beginning of a shared coastal history.
Stylistically the work sits in contemporary abstract realism: the hull, crew and rigging are rendered with enough detail for maritime and history collectors, while the sky and reflection are pushed into expressive, painterly textures. The square format makes this canvas a natural focal point above a sideboard, in a study, or in an executive office—anywhere a single, self-contained statement piece can hold the wall with both colour and story.
Canvas & Materials
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Premium matte canvas on a 1.25" (3.2 cm) gallery-style stretcher
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Cotton–polyester composite canvas for a fine, painterly surface with excellent color retention
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Inner frame made from radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
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Soft rubber dots on the back corners to protect walls and keep the canvas stable
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Hanging hardware included so the piece arrives ready to place and live with
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Please allow for slight size variation (± 1/8" / 3.2 mm) due to the handcrafted production process
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Printed with care to honour the detail, palette, and atmosphere of the original Archie Kilmor artwork
Original Artwork by Abstract Artist Archie Kilmor.
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Product information: Generic brand, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC
Care instructions: If the canvas does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.
