As is always the case, there is beauty still amid the destruction. I'm reminded of living in a FEMA trailer after the hurricane. I looked around at the endless piles of debris that had sunflowers sprouting around them, and thought how remarkable it was to see the hurricane-stripped trees setting out new blossoms a half a year off their normal schedule.
Though impressionist paintings of water usually bring Monet to mind, Alfred Sisley painted water that shimmered with life and movement. This is his painting of Port Marly after a flood. He painted several views of the town in flood water in the days it took for the water to recede.
And a painting of his with water in calm conditions.
Flood water or not, Pensacola is the ideal place for a painter to study water,surrounded as we are with bays, the Gulf, rivers and bayous that all look different from day to day under different light and weather conditions. I didn't realize how influenced by my surrounding I am, until an art patron pointed out that almost all of my paintings have water in them.
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| True Blue - sold |
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| Hills Over the Bayou - 16x20 oil on linen click here to purchase |
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| Silver Dawn - 18x24 oil on canvas click here to purchase |
