Description
Only Sink Beneath and You Are Free
oil on wood
45.5 x 61 x 2.5cm
Skeletons tumble in a colourful wave.
The painting refers to our precarious relationship with nature, and how we are at its mercy whether we accept it or not. As I love swimming in the sea so much, I see the skeletons as humorous and enjoying themselves. The stylised wave represents the unpredictability of the natural world and how it can engulf us in a second, like a bubble, swelling until it bursts.
Painting waves begins with reference to a photo taken while swimming. These act as maps for the complexity of moving water, but after the first approach they are discarded and I let my imagination take over. It is here that the paint dictates, each brushstroke informing the next, and being a messy palette painter means colours shift and merge into one another.
Painted using a limited colour palette, in oil on a braced wood panel, with clean natural wood edges, ready to hang. Please contact me for further information or additional photos.
