30. Hot Water Beach, New Zealand
40cm x 50.3cm
Interactive Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2012
SOLD
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery “Elements” exhibition (29th October to 22nd November)
This is another painting from a brief. ‘Elements’ was the theme for the November 2012 exhibition at the Eagle Gallery in Bedford, and this is my interpretation. Knowing I was going to New Zealand on holiday, I was fairly sure a seascape or coastal view would come up and would be appropriate. I spent much of the first week on a landscape view. Time ebbed away and I hadn’t walked to the beach for inspiration. My salvation came in a two day trip around Corromandel.
I had been planning waves crashing on rocks; and I got many photos of this at the “Hot Water” Beach on our trip. The image I plumped for, however, was a more simple view, but the lighting, clouds and wave seemed to gel for me.
We got back two weeks before the exhibition was due to open, so I adopted the whack it on with a palette knife and “splash it all over” technique. This creates a lot of life and movement and its difficult not to loose some of this when adding detail. I think this works as a study and I feel it answers the brief well enough.
The hot water beech lies above a volcanic cavern or some such thing; and so when the tide is out (which it wasn’t for us) on a specific part of the beach you can dig a hole to sit in, and the water that fills this up will be warm! I painted the side of the deep edge canvas ‘Red Black’ which alludes to the heat underneath. Maybe this is over-subtle; but I feel this is another ‘element’ that is depicted!
Interactive Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2012
SOLD
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery “Elements” exhibition (29th October to 22nd November)
This is another painting from a brief. ‘Elements’ was the theme for the November 2012 exhibition at the Eagle Gallery in Bedford, and this is my interpretation. Knowing I was going to New Zealand on holiday, I was fairly sure a seascape or coastal view would come up and would be appropriate. I spent much of the first week on a landscape view. Time ebbed away and I hadn’t walked to the beach for inspiration. My salvation came in a two day trip around Corromandel.
I had been planning waves crashing on rocks; and I got many photos of this at the “Hot Water” Beach on our trip. The image I plumped for, however, was a more simple view, but the lighting, clouds and wave seemed to gel for me.
We got back two weeks before the exhibition was due to open, so I adopted the whack it on with a palette knife and “splash it all over” technique. This creates a lot of life and movement and its difficult not to loose some of this when adding detail. I think this works as a study and I feel it answers the brief well enough.
The hot water beech lies above a volcanic cavern or some such thing; and so when the tide is out (which it wasn’t for us) on a specific part of the beach you can dig a hole to sit in, and the water that fills this up will be warm! I painted the side of the deep edge canvas ‘Red Black’ which alludes to the heat underneath. Maybe this is over-subtle; but I feel this is another ‘element’ that is depicted!