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.
Painted on unstretched canvas, I started with the composition, a series of diagonal v-shapes. First the stormy sky, then the mountain/trees and then the land mostly covered in snow. I was remembering winters in Canada, beautiful but brutal, and hoping for Spring to arrive (although it was too early).
2021 Acrylic 10" x 14"