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Saturday 9 October 2010

By Paul Bennett

Seascape painting brings movement to a still patch of wall in your home, because the sea itself is never still. From the beginning of humans creating art, artists have emphasized capturing a movement in time in the preservation of a canvas. The ever-changing sea challenges all artists as they spend the day painting the sea. Even in the early morning's calm, the sea is never truly still, as a riffle of wind picks up the surface of the water. As the day wears on, the noontime's heat bakes, blaring the morning's calm away to the flat torrid sun. Perhaps a mid-afternoon rain squall freshens the air as it turns the sky gray momentarily. Soon afterward, the brisk winds of approaching evening clear the sky once more.

The abstract quality of a seascape will not be overlooked by the discerning art enthusiast. Consisting of the curves of a breaking wave rather than the cubism inherent in a cityscape, an abstract seascape painting will delight anyone who takes the time to study the white foam arising from a wave's spent fury or that same wave backlit by a noontime sun.

No description of a seascape would be complete without its defining and limited feature, the land. The sea pounds away year after year at the land, which yields a beach or undercut cliff or two upon a winter storm, yet pushes up new land from underneath with tectonic fury to replace the old. It is a relentless dance between the two elements, and the abstract painting blends dark brown tones or lighter, sand-coloured hues with the many shades of the azure ocean to depict the epic struggle.

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