Alice in Notting Harbor
© 2020
Media: oil & mastic on canvas
Location: in a collection
32 x 22 inches (81 x 56 cm)
Available as canvas or paper prints from iCanvas
For those of you with low vision:
On first impression this is a picture of a city street seen from under a brilliant green-striped awning reaching overhead with a couple walking away from us toward an orange-red building, along glass storefronts in shade that reflect the opposite skyline rimmed in sunlight. But there's a second image that's seen through the stripes: a narrow harbor in shadow with some boats docked in front of small buildings climbing a hill behind. And in the foreground, the city street is a canal with a wide, dark green boat at the sidewalk's edge, as seen from behind, with the name on it's stern:
Wanderlust
Notting Harbor
Most of the foreground image is painted in the shades of blues, with the guy in a leather jacket and the girl with wavy long hair of the same color, carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers pointing down at the ground like she's been swirling them around. Behind them is a curved corner glass storefront bathed in sunlight with a draped sign that reads "Alice's" ...perhaps known to you as the funky antique store on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, London. The picture has some slightly quirky details... the other side of the street is painted in a yellow blur, like it's maybe a bus passing by quickly, but not quite that. In the storefront next to the couple there's the shadow of a light pole that extends down from the harbor image merging with the rest of the window display except that it appears to have an upside-down top hat as its base, and the boat's rope tied around it makes it more of a dock bollard.
Still the primary impression is the arc of green and pale yellow stripes that sweeps down from the top with half in bright sunlight and half in shade.
