Original artwork description:

Beautiful Green Series
Abstractions from Venice - part of a recurring series in which I explore the greens, the insubstantiality and light qualities of Venice. Working towards abstraction gives the elements I am interested in the freedom to take shape in the painting.
Poetry and painting mingle together in these paintings of Venice as I remember the light airy canals, the vast planes of sea, the flat slivers of light.
Watercolour let loose seems to be the most appropriate and expressive medium for this subject.
The watercolour painting is unframed on heavy weight archival paper
Size of painting
12 x 8 inches

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The poem that inspired the painting is here

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Lines Written among the Euganean Hills

“Beneath is spread like a green sea
The waveless plain of Lombardy,
Bounded by the vaporous air,
Islanded by cities fair;
Underneath Day’s azure eyes
Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies,
A peopled labyrinth of walls,
Amphitrite’s destin’d halls,
Which her hoary sire now paves
With his blue and beaming waves.”

Materials used:

Watercolour Paint

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