Now that the Wild Swim collection is out in the world, I’m sharing the individual paintings from it in a blog series, with a little bit of commentary about each one. If you’ve had your eye on one, this is a chance to get to know it better!

This week: Sea Notes

Could be a musical reference, or a reference to what has become a kind of shorthand for the expressing the experience of swimming in these paintings.

Or something else that you bring to it with your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences!

I don’t think of my work as narrative, but some are more ‘readable’ and some I think tend to lean more towards wordless feelings. To me, this one is the latter, with its strong contrasts and suggestive marks.

Click the button below to see the painting in more detail. It has a very tactile surface which is hard to show on a screen!