Description
One Hundred and Eight Years
oil on canvas
91 x 61 x 4cm
2024
Painted entirely from my imagined vision of a sunken collier ship, which is still visible from the shore off Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk (my home town). I have stopped using photos for reference of late and am very much enjoying the freedom in creating undulating swirling sea paintings, allowing myself to get immersed into each brushstroke and only viewing the whole when I step back after sometime close to the surface.
The shipwreck is really there of course but I have only seen small protruding posts at low tide, which are covered in seaweed and barnacles. It sunk in 1916, hence the title.
A four colour palette has been used, and I have been using a new blue from Old Holland of late. It is dirty and complicated, which is just how I like a colour to act. It is resulting in a cooler look to the paintings which more accurately reflects the freezing North Sea of which I am so fond.
Painted on a professionally stretched canvas with deep edges, washed clean with white.Unframed but ready to hang.
