Year of creation | 2022 |
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Dimensions | 101.6 W × 101.6 H × 5.1 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | contemporary art |
Genre | landscape |
Materials | oil, canvas |
Type of packaging | cardboard box |
A Courageous Soul Under the Sea is a big blue sparkling underwater seascape with a single tropical fish in the centre. It is 40x40x1.5 inches. The little fish is swimming at speed along the sand in shallow cerulean blue turquoise water with the deeper blue water behind her. You can see her colours reflected in the surface of the sea as the waves ripple and sparkle above her. The light shines through the water and makes sparkles on the ocean surface and across the sandy seabed. This is a paradise moment of time captured forever that aims to give the viewer a sense of space and freedom. It is another in a series of big underwater seascapes I have made over the years that began after some Caribbean snorkelling holidays. I re-live them whenever I paint them and like that I can glance at this painting and be somewhere wonderful in an instant. Painted on deep edge canvas, white edges, no frame needed, Comes with certificate of authenticity and gifts from the artist.
I am a professional artist based in East Sussex who creates large semi abstract landscape, seascape and wildlife paintings in oil on canvas. My painting style is very distinct and fuses art-nouveau, impressionist and semi-abstract techniques with traditional portraiture that reflect my love of nature, animals, birds and the flora and fauna of the landscapes around me. My main working method has been the development of a painting style I term ‘memory impressionism’. This method involves going walking somewhere, looking at and absorbing the things I see and experience, and then returning home to my studio to try and capture an echo or essence of the place from memory - including any wildlife I may have seen. By this method I can capture essences and echoes of places and the feeling I have about them. I love the ancient landscapes of England and my paintings often reflect the spiritual elements that such landscapes have.