Original artwork description:

“The Tides 2” is an acrylic and oil painting on canvas 150cms H x 100cms W x 3.5cms D. The painting is built in layers over a lightly primed canvas.
The painting is only for sale in mainland England. This is due to the expense of shipping and related custom duties. Shipping costs within England take into consideration scale, weight and insurance. U.K. shipping costs for this artwork are £135. The painting can be delivered personally which would avoid any risk of transit damage. This can be arranged through Artfinder.
“The Tides 2” is the second in short series of larger scale landscape-based paintings. I aim to paint as immediately as I can. The painting has to evolve through creative incident and accident.
As with Tides 1, there is a visual and ephemeral connection to land and seascape. Whether an artist works directly from nature, from memory, or from fantasy nature is always the source of the creative impulses. I live on the Sefton coast in north west England. I see the tides every day, I walk the beach every morning at daybreak. Thinking about tides is the ephemeral connection where emotions or a sense of being overwhelmed in your waking life take effect. The painting is not a literal translation of what I see in front of me. It is a homage to one of nature’s beauties and how I absorb those moments of thoughtful reflection. The space, light and atmosphere of such a beautiful coastline never fail to move me.
I maintain my interest in and take inspiration from the abstract expressionists ie: Elizabeth Frankenthaler, Barbara Rae, Hans Hoffman, John Hoyland, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Henri Matisse and Gillian Ayres.
I work directly over the canvas using brushes, knives, cloths and squeegees to manage layers of acrylic paint. It is a continuous process of ‘correction’. I erase and rub away surfaces to reveal what is hidden. This process helps to develop creative accident and expression. Such areas are textured and managed through both impasto and translucent liquid colour. Other areas of the painting are purposefully hard edged and solid in colour. Overall, this creates a balance of expressive structure. In this painting the balance between solid structure and gestural painting is more enigmatic.

Materials used:

Acrylic, encaustic and oil on canvas

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