When painting "Evening Light, Bream Bay", I was inspired by my studies of the local sand dunes to paint this larger image of Ruakaka Beach. The top of the dunes seemed to leave a space in the foreground of the composition which needed to be filled so I transplanted my "After the Storm" canoe from previous works to complete the scene. The colourings of this work seem to leap back many months to my previous work with highly saturated colour schemes. After a long time concentrating on developing subtle harmonies in greys it's refreshing for me to do this again with my colours, although I've tempered the bold colours in the grasses and sky with largr areas of more neutral greys in the hope that the contrast between the two will enhance the pleasing qualities of both.



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