Take Me to the Island XIII, ©John O’Grady
20″ x 20″ x 1.75″, oil on deep edged canvas, ready to hang.
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It’s one of those bright days that shift between rain and sunshine in an instant.
Clouds, water, wind and rain morph and we are staring, mesmerised by this spectacle with an uncertain outcome.
In this painting, as we look out from the western shore, the wind moves across the water and diffuses pockets of light that bounce off the ocean. Like stepping-stones, they guide our eye towards the far distance, past the island beaten by the successive weather fronts and past the curved horizon line.
There, we notice the falling veils of rain and the growing cumulus cloud.
We wonder, what’s beyond this?
I really like the play of light on the sea, a perfect complement to the cumulus clouds above.
Thank you very much Robert, I hope your own work is going well too.
The vast expanse of the deep blue/green sea has real sense of depth as it stretches out towards that enigmatic island. The rain falling is subtle and blends with the mist and low clouds. The horizon glows and the cloud is delicately backlit. Another great the painting in the Take me to the Island series John.
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your comment. I certainly seem to be amassing a few in this series, which I am very pleased about. I really wanted to capture that ‘vast expanse’ that you mention, I think and hope it succeeded.
stunning colours John, a vibrant and beautiful ocean scape, it’s like the spirit of the island is connected with the sky, a very enjoyable feast for the senses
Hello Julie,
I would like to think like you that the island is connected to the sky, that was in my thoughts as I was making it.
We sometimes forget the space between, the void, the concept between the solitary island and sky, a place where we sometimes need reminding it is there for breathing in, to recapture, and spiral into a beautiful veridian solitude transfixed by a forever beckoning horizon..a very refreshing, airy piece John I love it!
Hello Irene,
Your comment really reflects my own thoughts on the painting, that moment of breathing in and connection with the awe of nature as you say ‘the Viridian solitude’ and that ‘horizon is beckoning’. Thank you very much