Love Seahorses Couple Ed. 3 of 100

This piece is titled "Love". I’m drawn to exploring the dynamics of couples and expressing those connections symbolically through my animal paintings. In this work, the male seahorse gently holds the female by the tail as they share an intentional gaze, looking into each other’s eyes with tenderness. Their spiral tails intertwine, representing a deep, affectionate bond. This is what love feels like to me.

The original piece was created with water. By laying down even blocks of intense colour, in this case, one of my favourite hues, burnt sienna, I then use water to move the pigment, shaping and revealing the forms of the animals.

***Please note: the colour of this print is beautifully rich and deep, much closer to the photograph of the painting on the easel.

- Title: Love
- Orientation: Landscape
- Materials: Print on stretched canvas from my original watercolour painting
- Frame: Stretched on canvas

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Its much harder for me to talk about my art than it is to paint ;)
Words come later, images and the joy I experience when I paint comes first.

I sometimes think about my work as a maze. I go into long winded paths of discovery, I dive deep into a subject but I follow tangents too. They sometimes lead to dead ends yet other times bring about the most wonderful discoveries.

Ive learned not to give up too soon. Is almost a scientific approach: establishing outcomes through testing and experimentation; making observations, predictions and most importantly analysing the results.

I work in collections. I explore a subject until I feel like its ran its course. I paint in tied palette that I almost always mix myself, colour mixing and creating my own colours is a big part of my prep work. My palette oscillates between earthy tones, dark moody ones and blue, the colour that I seem to be gravitating towards in recent months. As Van Gogh said "There is no blue without yellow and orange", therefore I also incorporate those two, its a must!