‘Fire and Ice’, watercolour on paper, 25.5x20.5 cm/ 10x8 inches.

The exaggerated contrast of colours in this painting brought me so much joy to paint. The reference for it was a vibrant sunset in Bognor, where the tide had rolled out and transformed the sand into a refracted mirror covered with rivulets and streams of the kind I used to chase to the shore’s edge when I was a child. I wanted to add the drama of high summer to this piece, with its intense shadows and sun rays, the contrast between full sun and cool shade, and the contrast of the beach of sun baked sand and skin and the cool ocean waves.

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I have taken every effort to depict my work accurately in these images in different lights, however variation from photograph to reality is often unavoidable - generally with the original looking brighter and clearer than photographs depict. If you are concerned about colour variation I would advise looking at images carefully across different devices before purchasing.

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