What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
This has everything I like in a painting: big sky, misty atmosphere, river reflecting the sky and moving off into the distance. It's many layers of thinned acrylic paint, Golden's wetting solution and lots of dreamy contemplation. Finished in 2023 and then, after fixing some minor problems that kept bothering me, finished again in 2024. Hopefully, no more fixes.
2023/4 Acrylic on raw canvas Size: 20" x 20"