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30. Hot Water Beach, New Zealand

Picture
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!

 
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