This is actually the second painting with this title...
It's based on a memory from many years ago when I was with a few friends drinking wine on the beach at Hove about midnight and watching the waves come in as they hit the beach. The horizon was invisible and the waves looked as though they were coming from Space or at least an infinite space and somehow had a surreal power to them which has always stuck in my memory. So this painting will have no horizon as such, the only indication of it being the light of a boat far out to sea otherwise the waves will hopefully look as though they are coming from a void with the surf catching some warmer light from the lights onshore...
This is the initial tonal underpainting using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and applied with a brush and rag.
Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".
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