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.
As the sun goes down and the sky starts to turn red, the shadows lengthen and everything becomes still. It's a magical time of day when everything seems to be on hold, when that now red sun hovers just visible over the trees.
Last Light won the Red Dot (Best in Class) in the Art Student League's O'Cain Class Salon January 22-27, 2024.
2023 Acrylic on raw canvas Size: 20" x 24"