Original artwork description:

“Rainbow Wharf” is an acrylic painting on plywood panel with a wooden frame 90cms wide and 90cms height. The painting takes its inspiration from the Sefton coastline at a time in July when we were experiencing very hot weather in Southport. Living on the coast I get to see and enjoy many dramatic skies daily. This painting doesn’t attempt to replicate reality. I’ve always thought photography was the best medium to capture the drama of an exact moment and have never really seen too much purpose in making a painting that replicates a photograph. “Rainbow Wharf” is a painting inspired by the beach / sky twilight photographs taken by Aly Linaker and the dawn coastline photographs of Sharon Barnes. See additional pictures. My interest in the photographs is indeed the drama of colour and distinction of light and shadow. The painting is a gestural and expressive interpretation of a familiar location. The painting also marks a return to observing the Sefton horizons which are so dramatic and changeable. I always reference the Fauvist artists Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain and the Impressionists, Monet, Pissarro and Vuillard together with modernists Gillian Ayres, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin and Patrick Heron. The painting is shipped in a heavy duty cardboard crate.

Materials used:

Acrylic on plywood panel on batten frame