Painting 'White Cliffs'

painting 'White Cliffs'  landscape between Folkestone and Dover in Kent, UK  - acrylics on canvas

size 40 x 40 cm

year 2013

 

"White Cliffs" somewhere between Folkestone to Dover on a trekking day with my partner. Often is very hard and positively unpractical to just stop, set up your easel and paint what is in front of you, just because how can't help himself not to freeze a beautiful and exhilarating landscape. The camera come in, and pocket side sketchbook too, your imagination, how one translate first hand impression on a scene to a vast inward landscape; perhaps the scope is endless and  vision within is the only limitation.
In "White Cliffs" I tried to fulfill all those premises I wanted to convey, in a narrative context, in order to synthesize in one single picture a day in the life of a couple in contact with nature.
I set myself right in the middle of the dividing line between the left bending path and engulfing blue- violet sea waves around my self portrait. My partner is the all too willing trip planner, the organizer and the ideal companion for field nature nature exclusions. In "White Cliffs" she invite the viewer to share our experience and excitement of trekking, exploring and discovery along a  rolling path between Folkestone and Dover.
"White Cliffs" was a gift for Marzena's parents. They now own already three of my painting and a couple of drawings.