Decay & the Sublime Print

I intended this as a calm, meditative piece. I find the patina of age and entropy to be beautiful for many materials including rusted steel. I wanted to contrast that kind of beauty with the sublime beauty of a clear but graduated blue sky. Stone also develops beautiful patinas, but rusted steel offered a more complementary colour, and the association with heavy industry adds to the message that there is beauty everywhere. I like partial framing, partial limitation of views. The corner where the steel planes meet each other and the view of the sea becomes a focal point from which the painting spreads out - mainly upwards and left to right. This directionality creates an uplifting sense of possibility (for me) and occurs in much of my work.