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Red Beach Umbrella Abstract

Project type

Aqua Beach with Red Umbrella and Sea Oats Abstraction

Location

Kure Beach, North Carolina

On a calm weather day, I saw a little girl and her mother with their ice chest, under a red striped umbrella, alone on the beach. In this painting, I took the people out of the image to push the lonely beach feeling. Then I played with the abstraction as much as I could. Artistically, what I am doing here is flattening the space. Instead of a horizon line miles away, the horizon is brought forward - deep space made flat. This painting expresses my feeling of loneliness at the time, as a caretaker of my children's health.

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