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.
A variation on my earlier painting Almost Clear, I Wish is also painted on gessoed canvas (on top of an earlier failed painting). Although this started as a very atmospheric painting of that castle I remember from years ago in Germany, I wanted to emphasize that it was up on a hill and also really "see" the wind through the use of visible brushstrokes. That image let me dream of an idealized life in a castle on a hill.
2020 Acrylic Size: 18"x24"