Patterns left behind in the sand have always fascinated me and I have a collection of photos from way back in the 1990’s! With all the estuaries here in the Tasman area of New Zealand, I’m adding to that collection, and spending time delving into their intricate patterns – always so different!
‘Over There’ is something I experience frequently when sitting on the side of many of our local estuaries!
Since arriving back in New Zealand, I’ve been fascinated with the local estuaries in the Tasman region,and their amazing tidal patterns. Something I didn’t get living close to the Mediterrean! I have some favourite spots to sit and ponder and whatever the tide is doing, there is always something different
A newly completed painting from my New Zealand ‘Estuary Series’. I seem to spend many hours sitting staring at the water’s edge, and absorbing the patterns left behind by the tides. Each day is different! I sketch and roughly paint what I see each visit, and these eventually inspire my acrylic and mixed media paintings.
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Now that I’m living in New Zealand, I have a whole world of different inspiration to paint. My initial fascination has been the local estauries and their tidal patterns. Having spent 15 years in the Mediterranean, the tidal movement of the oceans in the Tasman region are a fascination and total mystery to me. Each moment I spend sitting at the edge of the bay opens up a whole new watery landscape to sketch, and paint and lose myself in. These two paintings are the first in a series based on these estauries.
SOLD – I loved working on this painting as we spend the first full winter in Greece for many years. Lockdown has kept us close to home, but how lucky are we to have a gorgeous long beach right on the doorstep. I’ve wandered along it in many weathers, and the ocean is often ominous and crashing. This painting though, portrays it somewhere in between that and the usual glorious calm blue it usually is during summer.
BOTH SOLD – Hot off the press! These two 40 x 40cm boards were a deliberate change in colour palette and can be purchased as a diptych, although they are perfect just on their own! In this series, I’m delving into marks and shapes of what I imagine are under these vast oceans around us. The Mediterranean, which is right at my door, is probably a little more deceptive than the surf beaches of New Zealand and Australia which continuously churn up various types and shades of seaweeds, but nevertheless, there must still be some interesting stuff in it’s Hidden Depths!
This painting has had many iterations, but my desire was to convey blue water and islands, perhaps resting points, somewhere in the world.