What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
RUTH HURD
FINE ART
Although this could be a beach or a desert, it's actually a variation on what I see many nights from my living room window: the sun going down behind the Palisades partly reflected in the Hudson River. It's African colors superimposed on my view. 2023 Acrylic on raw canvas. Size: 30" x 24"
This river could be anywhere, of course, but it's based on memories and photos I took in Kyoto, Japan. Quiet and peaceful. Creating this painting was not quiet and peaceful, however. More than once I thought I'd blown it and would have to gesso over it. So glad now I didn't. 2022 Acrylic on raw canvas. Size: 24" x 30"
My early childhood memories of standing outside at night in the dead of winter in Canada were still, quiet and incredibly peaceful. Life was so much simpler. Painting this, however, was not so simple: it required many layers trying to fix an early mistake. Acrylic on raw canvas is so unforgiving. 2021 Acrylic on raw canvas. Size: 16" x 20"
Although this could be a beach or a desert, it's actually a variation on what I see many nights from my living room window: the sun going down behind the Palisades partly reflected in the Hudson River. It's African colors superimposed on my view. 2023 Acrylic on raw canvas. Size: 30" x 24"