Liverpool Waterfront and Docks Print

A collection of very rare Aerial Views of post war Liverpool were taken by Former RAF bomber pilot Flight Lieutenant Derek Riley. Those pictures were displayed on a few occasion by the newspaper "Liverpool Echo", giving me a chance to recreate in my own style and feelings, a plunging view of the city waterfront and Docks. My method to render those views was to keep the printed pictures with me all day long - in my pocket - looking at them from time to time,sometimes every ten minutes. In the evening, I started to draw some shapes, waiting for my gestures to become kind of independant from my mind, until I finally succeeded in sketching a good one and deciding it was the one I was waiting for. From this sketch I created this canvas, which I think represent the exact shore and waterfront of Liverpool with its docks and channels, with all the emotions I was able to mix with some acrylic paint.