Oceans, seas, lakes, pools & boats

I started painting waves in 2009 following hours and hours photographing them crashing onto the beach in Pringle Bay, South Africa. I could watch them all day. If the saying is true that all artists have a theme, then this is mine. I find them to be one of the most impressive and beautiful sights in nature and I have spent too much time trying to understand and paint them.

Water covered most of the Earth’s surface and I feel very much at home on or in it, sailing, swimming and diving but underwater scenes are for the camera not the paint brush.

  1. Oceans & Seas
P126.14. Wave on beach, Pringle bay, oil on canvas, 120×80
P136.14. Wave breaking on beach, triptyque, 120×60

The above paintings clockwise from the top left:

P76.10. Wave on beach, Pringle bay, oil on canvas 70×50 P171.16. Waves at sunset, oil on canvas 120×80 P104.11. Wave breaking on beach, Pringle Bay, oil on canvas 120×80. P175.16 Green wave breaking in blue sea, oil on canvas 50×40 P140.14 Wave breaking on beach, watercolour & pastel 40×50

P179.16. Pacific wave, oil on canvas triptyque 150×70

P173.16 & P272.16 Bali waves, oil on canvas 60×40 & 120×80

P176.16 Waves by moonlight, oil on canvas 140×60

P178.16 Pacific wave, oil on canvas, 70×50

P158.15 Fishermen, South Africa, watercolour 27x20cm.

2. Lakes & Pools

P90.10 Sailing on Lac Léman, oil on canvas 30×40 cm.
P165c.16 Boat on lake in grey/green, oil on canvas 70×50 cm.
P166.16 Blue boat on dark lake, oil on canvas 60×40 cm.

P130.14, 134.14, 135.14, Minimalist pool swimmers, watercolour 30x20cm

3 Boats

P46.09, Hong Kong Junk, 1979 watercolour 27x19cm
P71.10, St Tropez regatta2009, oil on canvas 70×50

P203.18 Sailing yacht Betelgeuse, HK. New Territories 1980, oil on canvas 30×40