Cloudy Bay Print

Cloudy Bay was the name of my father's boat and this painting was the first from my "Ash Blooms in the Blackwater" series. The paintings came about as a response to the death of my father in August 2017. The title of the project is born from the process of scattering his ashes in the Blackwater a river that runs out into the Clyde Estuary through the small village Blackwaterfoot on the Isle of Arran. It was here my father would moor his boat Cloudy Bay and would often land his catch of lobster, crab, pollock and mackerel. My mum would say the sea was his spiritual home, so it seemed fitting that this would be the place to scatter his ashes. Caught by the current each pour of the ashes sank and swirled and seemed to bloom, expanding, dancing on the current taking form against the dark of the water and sinking, elegantly from view. I remember being surprised how beautiful it looked, then guilty that something that appeared to me as beautiful had extracted a heavy price. Maybe that was the only way I could balance the loss of my father by finding beauty and elegance in the random ash blooms in the water. I researched heavily to find a medium that would allow for the freedom and accident that reflected the random currents and flow of the river. When I came across the use of resin and the idea of pouring the medium onto the surface it seemed a natural fit for what I was hoping to achieve.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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