Under the blue Oie Hetha
(213cm 274cm)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Some paintings, such as Under the blue it took many years to complete, The painstaking process of layering colour on top of colour - blue dripped, brushed and applied on to blue - results in a luminescence and sense of a moment halted. Large canvases that are riots of colour, yet conjure simple images and impression - rain dripping slowly down a windowpane or the colours of an optimistic summer''s day. The very size of the canvas heightens the desire to walk into the image and lose oneself in the soft layers, as if they were a memory.