Where the Water Broke

Where the Water Broke

£220.00

oil on panel
18 × 24cm
unframed

A small seascape concerned with the moment water meets rock and everything becomes movement.

Loose passages of pale blue and grey are interrupted by darker rock forms and broken white paint, creating the suggestion of surf without describing it too precisely. I wanted to keep the painting spare and immediate, with the marks carrying the energy of the sea.

Where the Water Broke is an original oil painting on 6 mm MDF board, measuring 18 × 24 cm. Created as part of my Artist Support Pledge work and sold unframed.

I think these strike the right balance for the ASP pieces: they still sound like your main practice, but the descriptions emphasise study, experimentation and immediacy, which helps explain why these sit separately from your usual framed work.

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Artist Support Pledge gives me a space to make small, more experimental works alongside my main studio practice.

These paintings are an opportunity to work a little more freely: to follow ideas, explore different techniques and allow some pieces to remain looser and less resolved. I’m particularly interested in how very little can sometimes be needed to suggest a landscape, a sense of place or an atmosphere.

Each piece is priced in keeping with the Artist Support Pledge and released individually as it is finished, rather than as part of a formal collection.

ASP works are released first on Instagram. Any pieces still available will then be added here.

What is Artist Support Pledge?

Artist Support Pledge is a global initiative founded by artist Matthew Burrows to encourage artists and collectors to support one another. Artists offer work for no more than £220, plus postage, and every time £1,100 of sales is reached, they pledge to spend £220 on work by another artist.

It is a simple idea built around generosity, collecting and supporting the wider artist community.