Stormy coast Painting

The country of my birth, Holland, is a nation with a long coastal line and an interesting, albeit challenging relationship with water, the sea and its intrusion, over the centuries. I am of course a child of my country. Apart from that I have lived 15 years in coastal South-India, where the ocean poses different but not lesser interesting challenges to the people who live close to the coastal line. I am a widower, but was married with a woman from India. My Indian family was affected by the 2004 Tsunami, that left almost 10.000 people in India dead. The sea, in a storm, can be a beast. But she can be a source of meditation and quietude too. I love the sea, I need to live close to a source of water, if not the sea, then a creek or even a canal. In Amsterdam, where I currently live, I am blessed with a beautiful stream, close to my apartment. This painting, in acrylics, using only two shades of blue (wet-on-wet) render a beautiful sea with the reflection of the blue sky above. The coast, is it an island? is it the mainland? and where is it? is a mystery. I hope the viewer will feel the duality of the open water: a source of happiness, indulgence and relaxation and a source of potential threat as well. As dualistic as all our lives are.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.6 D in

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