Not yet finished!
The artist group I belong to, Ouse Life Artists, are all building up a body of work on the theme “Reflections”. Since the exhibition will take place in Prickwillow ArtSpace in the first week of September, not in the Cathedral, or in any very Ely-specific place, we have taken the opportunity to set a much broader theme.
“Reflections” can be literal or more contemplative. I have chosen the more literal route, finding more inspiration and colours (of course) in the outside world than in my own thoughts. So far I am finding reflections in water (though of course, mirrors and shiny objects can also reflect things.
This is the largest painting I have made for the series so far but it isn’t huge, like the Vegetable Apocolypse, or the First Supper were for the Ouse Life Artists Exhibition of 2022, in Ely Cathedral. No, this is a bright blue, 100 x 50 cm canvas, showing the sea coming in shallow over the beach at Essaouira, Morocco, on a cool Febrary morning. As you can see, the water does different things, depending on its depth, and what kind of shape the sand takes underneath it. The image on the left is just a section.
I chose acrylics for this one, so I could do several layers rather quickly, should I want to. I certainly had to “push” the large expanses of blue back and draw a white, kind of net curtain over them, so they did not look too tropical and hot!
