WATERLILIES
My conversations with lily ponds has been going on now for some six years. They keep asking new questions of me and presenting with new challenges and as a consequence my answers vary. It would be easy to look and see how others, particularly Monet, have answered the questions in the past, but as my studies continue I find my answers are very different – different viewpoint, different handling and a different rationale. My interest is in the reflection as a vertical backdrop against which waterlilies define a horizontal. I am now able to set this volume against new subjects, real and imagined, but mostly as seen at different times of day and in different light conditions.
Old Pond at Cairnie, Weeping Willow Reflected, Morning Oil on Canvas | 122 x 122 cm | £17,000
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