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.
The Salt Flats (Saline di Trapani) in Sicily were an amazing example of how salt used to be (and there still is) harvested. The wind mills move the water from the sea to increasingly shallow areas. The wind and the sun help move the evaporation along until it's mostly salt. As the process unfolds, the water changes color.
2021 Acrylic on unstretched raw canvas Size: 15" x 18"