This is another for my solo show at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO next year. I was going to paint this awhile ago but decided to try and improve how I painted waves and water first so the recent smaller paintings were kind of trial runs before I took on this one. This is a return to my "Point Of Light" series with a lonely trawler returning to port after a long while at sea off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. I have tried to use the format to emphasise the loneliness of the trawler on the open sea set against the approaching coastline with a faint hint of orange on the horizon just around from the far headland - the home it's heading for. I hadn't planned it as a nocturne but once I had left that bright space in the sky in the tonal underpainting I decided to go with it which is just as well as the painting would have looked a bit drab without the beautiful moon in the sky.
Oil on canvas 39" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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