This piece was featured in the Crooked Tree Art Gallery Artist Guild Show 2022 here in Traverse City, Michigan. Each member was allowed three pieces to hand for the event, and I really enjoyed creating this piece specifically for that show.
“Swell” was one of the most enjoyable experiences I’ve had as a painter. The composition is a quick study in the push and pull of land and sea.
As much as I’d like to think that painting is a very natural and fluid process for me, it often involves quite a bit of frustration and reworking of a piece before I’m happy and ready to share it with others. With Swell, that wasn’t the case. It was done in a matter of hours, just one late night and one bright Saturday morning. I was able to curtail my ever-present desire to keep going and I think this piece is very much a meditation in restraint that I need to practice more often.
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