Gold Sails

This is part of the Nautical Blue series.
Acrylic and gold leaf on Circular Canvas
A sailing boat with a sun lit sail glides across the bay.

Using a simple palette of deep dark blue, light blue and white with gold leaf, this little seascape uses beautiful metallic gold against a soft sea and cloudy sky

Acrylic on on a stretched canvas circle with gold leaf. The metallic gold shimmer and changes in the light.
Painting flows over the edge.

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Australian artist Laurie Franklin (b. 1981) is an established, internationally collected painter known for her layering of paint and mixed media to create tactile works ranging from mountains, seascapes to florals and abstracted forms.

Laurie has sold 1000s of artworks since starting painting in 2002, artwork is displayed in hotels, restaurants and held collections in over 20 countries. Past hotel projects have included 200m of hand painted wallpaper and hundreds of original artworks for hotel suites.

Based in Melbourne, Australia she works from a large studio space allowing several artworks to be worked on simultaneously. She travels and undertakes Art residencies around the world, the changing scenery influences her unique approach to capturing the intrinsic character of the landscape . Her gestural style, tight color palette and use of metallic elements create tactile, intriguing artworks.