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 took two years to paint, multiple versions, and was a labor of love. Photos of Victoria Falls, memories of waterfalls in Iceland, and many many layers of watered down acrylic all came together, finally, into a painting that somewhat resembled what I had started out to do two years earlier. Whew! Glad they're not all this hard.
2022 Acrylic on raw canvas Size: 30" x 20"