Beyond the sea
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Soft pastels on 300g cold pressed cotton paper
Size: 76 x 112.
Completed 2025
This artwork needs the protection of glass.
I am drawn to the horizon — it holds both longing and expectation, and an experience of vast, open space.
As evening falls, the stillness of sea and sky invites a quiet solitude, a moment of inward reflection.
I mould the landscape with my hands, sculpting it as though it were clay. My fingers leave traces of pigment behind — enough to raise hills and carve valleys across the paper. The shadows are built from many colours, layered one upon another, deepening the darkness until it becomes full and alive.
Recreating a landscape on paper is much like telling a story through steep cliffs and rushing water. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments rubbed into cotton paper until the whole surface is filled with colourful pigments that‘s creating images of recognisable shapes and places remembered. But its more than that, its a tale of life itself; It’s a soulscape and a reflection on human emotions.
I like to revisit a specific place in my mind, translating the atmosphere it into a lyrical landscape with the use of colour. The abstraction allows me to incorporate the whole experience; incorporating the scent of warm earth, the sound of running water and whispers of wind. The landscape is dissolved and translated it into a colour mood and in this matter given a closeness to the soul.
This artwork is made with soft pastels and has a fine layer of fixative as finishing coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.