Summer of L
© 2015
Media: oil & mastic on canvas
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $3900 framed
40 x 28 inches / 102 x 72 cm
Available as canvas or paper prints from iCanvas
When I was a teenager, by chance, I ended up in a house that had three huge, powerful Sorolla paintings, one of which was the view down into the deep reflection of a boat in water. I became a painter that day.
For those with low vision:
This painting depicts the view of the reflection of a boat onto slightly rippling water. The dark blue hull of the boat stretches across the top of the composition, with stripes of white and pale aqua blue at the waterline, as a fat knotted rope dangles into the water. Below this, the reflection of the hull shifts towards umber/ocher/green, with the boat’s white cabin reflected in broad ripples. Layered within this whole image, reminiscent of a double-exposed photograph, are the faint traces of a window set deep into a wall with a hinged shutter seen on the right. Through the four panes of the window is the interior of a room in shadow, interrupted by the reflection in the glass of a country road striped with shadows, and, on the far side of that interior, another window to a sun-soaked yellow-green roadbank in that country landscape. If you look closely you can just barely see that two of the striped shadows are of people walking hand in hand.
There are two images; the second shows the painting in its picture frame.
