"Orange Spinnaker" Painting

I grew up in Denmark surrounded by the Baltic Sea, then lived in Chile for twenty years where I explored the beautiful yet unpredictable seas in the fjords of the Southern Oceans and it was again the water that attracted me when I recently moved to Sydney and started to race and cruise along the East Coast of Australia. I´m fascinated by the ocean, the waves and the wind and the first thing I do when I wake up is to check my weather app to see the predictions for the wind and the sea state. It´s that fascination of those ever changing conditions I want the viewer of my art to experience. I paint a colourful abstract interpretation of the sea with its powerful movements of waves, shifting shapes and shades of blue and green. The presence of a colourful sail and a heeling mast suggest the state of the seas and the rapidly changing conditions or the excitement of an animated race. I combine bold brush strokes with pools and eddies of acrylic paint, frothy white sea spray and lines of black charcoal to give my art multiple layers that invites the viewer to discover the elements within the painting