Creating “The beach to ourselves”
Digital Print – Digital (Giclée) on Museum Grade Art Paper
A walk along a quiet beach is always reviving, whether with a special friend, or three (human or canine), or in glorious solitude.
Dunes fringe this long sweeping beach with their lovely contours, colour and texture. I don't know what it is about dunes…
Perhaps it's their soft appearance; the way the grass and sand creates undulating mounds, or it's the ever moving grass. It might be that any soft breeze causes much animation, and this kind of landscape comes alive.
Add the sound of the sea, and the noise of the sand under foot, and sigh, you're in one of the best landscapes for feeling truly alive. My, you can tell I love being by the sea.
This beach is similar to places like Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, and Bantham Beach in Devon. Both beaches stretch wide, and are approached through dunes.
I've visited both, so have experienced the joy of these locations. There's a pile of paintings and prints to do, inspired by these two places.
This landscape art, however, is imaginary, inspired by the memories of being on the beaches I've mentioned, and others.
This is a digital painting, painted using a computer like David Hockney has been making – though not in his style of course.
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Published: 2022 [Digital] Paintworks Card Collection, Bristol UK, James Ellis Stevens Ltd.