Size: 150 x 150 cm
Medium: mixed media on primed linen
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Sometimes my beach paintings are composed to include both beach and sky. I love painting clouds and Queensland is known for its big clear, blue skies and wide sweeping beaches. The sand is squeaky clean and clouds float by like lazy sheep. Seagulls park themselves in spaces where they can watch unnoticed, like sentinels guarding their territory.
In this work I used a mixture of Western perspective with horizon lines and vanishing points with objects getting smaller in the distance. And also, I have used an eastern ‘stacked space’ perspective where objects are not necessarily in proportion to each other. This allows me to play with sizes and how they juxtapose with other elements. Buckets, chairs, umbrellas and figures are all disproportionate, so European rules of perspective are broken and rearranged. This encourages the naïve playfulness that give these beach paintings their fun filled narratives.