realistic Seascape paintings
The art of painting seascapes
“Seascape painting has become an independent artistic genre.
I belong to these artists that struggle for optical realism through an accurate grasp of nature. Realism has to respond to some knowledge requirements that are accumulated through years of observation and practice, from the detailed rendering of the finite part of the scene and the rendering of depth and infinite expansion. The building up in each painting is subject to careful visual analysis, by enhancing drama or peace, softness or roughness, and will lead to a visual incident or emptiness.
My wish is that you will join me, plunge, dive in infinitely in the depth of the sea, nuanced and without limits, as I do when working.”
My artistic approach
The relationship to my subject, “The sea” is, I believe characterised by an intuitive response to the potential of water, that of Earth’s history, all life was aquatic and that of water as a symbol of spirituality.
I am highly triggered by light. I essentially perceive colours in terms of light, or glow if you wish. Before the subtle reality made of variable transparency; air, water, light, I am wondering:
-How do they interact with one another?
-How do they absorb, or echo light?
During the slow process of creation, with caution, and a certain mistrust of the emotional subjectivity, multiple layers of glaze are carefully organised to achieve the illusion of nature. The picture acquires its own personality and slowly releases the research content which it has been impregnated from, to deliver an intensified and densified vision of what it represents.
I dedicated more than 15 years to the representation of the sea and the ocean, and I still feel I haven’t yet consumed the far-reaching knowledge I committed to, when I began painting water.
I have the same enthusiasm to solve the mystery of an equation that will allow me to paint- with coloured pigments that cumulatively tend to black - a nature made up of colours which cumulatively create light.
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Photos from clients and galleries
