Into the Green - 42 x 29.7cm
This is a watercolour and gouache piece, painted on 320gsm cold-press paper.
One of the most enjoyable parts of immersing yourself in nature is, for me, that sensation of envelopment. Being isolated from the routinised blur of modern life, and feeling as though your senses are filled by the world around you. I usually pursue this in my marine works. But in Tasmania there was an eerie and beautiful similarity in the density and presence of the forest, to the world underwater. I was reminded of the underside of the ocean's surface, looking up at the shifting light between leaves, at the skin of shadow and light between the worlds above and below. To replicate this impression, I used techniques I use for water to depict the underside of the canopy.
This is a watercolour and gouache piece, painted on 320gsm cold-press paper.
One of the most enjoyable parts of immersing yourself in nature is, for me, that sensation of envelopment. Being isolated from the routinised blur of modern life, and feeling as though your senses are filled by the world around you. I usually pursue this in my marine works. But in Tasmania there was an eerie and beautiful similarity in the density and presence of the forest, to the world underwater. I was reminded of the underside of the ocean's surface, looking up at the shifting light between leaves, at the skin of shadow and light between the worlds above and below. To replicate this impression, I used techniques I use for water to depict the underside of the canopy.
This is a watercolour and gouache piece, painted on 320gsm cold-press paper.
One of the most enjoyable parts of immersing yourself in nature is, for me, that sensation of envelopment. Being isolated from the routinised blur of modern life, and feeling as though your senses are filled by the world around you. I usually pursue this in my marine works. But in Tasmania there was an eerie and beautiful similarity in the density and presence of the forest, to the world underwater. I was reminded of the underside of the ocean's surface, looking up at the shifting light between leaves, at the skin of shadow and light between the worlds above and below. To replicate this impression, I used techniques I use for water to depict the underside of the canopy.
