The Floating World
2004
Sensual, mysterious and ethereal: a sense of the real or tangible yet illusive. A moment suspended.
The series of images The Floating World take their title from Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts of the late Edo period. Indebted to Hokusai and Hiroshige for their studies in water movement and the then fashionable bands of graduated colour, I am interested in the calligraphic line of a swift brush, purity of colour and light and the embodiment of a still presence.
Daybed, 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 61 cm x 61 cm
Nardoo Pond, 2004, oil on canvas, 20 cm x 20 cm
Sarracenia Symphony, oil on canvas, 110 cm x 110 cm
Lotus Boat, 2004, oil on canvas, 20 cm x 20 cm
Leaf Boat, 2004, oil on canvas, 20 cm x 20 cm
Under the wave (after Hokusai), 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 66 cm x 66 cm
Lotus Pavilion, 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50.5 cm x 111.5 cm
Rain deity, 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50.5 cm x 111.5 cm
Water Music, 2004, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50.5 cm x 111.5 cm
Drift, 2003, oil on canvas, 45 cm x 45 cm
Flight I, oil on canvas, 45 cm x 45 cm
Full Moon, oil and acrylic on canvas, 61 cm x 101 cm
Matso's, 2004, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
Sun Pictures, 2004, oil on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
The Floating World, 2004, oil on canvas, 150 cm x 100 cm
Various small works, 2004, oil on canvas 15 x 15 cm and 20 x 20 cm