Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 17 July, 2019, oil on canvas board, 30 X 40
After two years of working from this twilight motif I begin to know it, feel it, and worship it. It is is not curse like Ahab's pursuit for his white whale, but a kind of divine, benign, and sensual puzzle. It beckons me further and further into its secret labyrinth of misty colours each night. Will I ever arrive? Certainly not, but I am getting closer, somewhere.
I often wonder to myself that I just might be the wealthiest soul on earth. For each night, as I set up a palette to work, I am given another chance to paint this gift, this perfect horizon which has been offered up to everyone on the beach here. But I, like Prometheus, get to steal it from the Gods each night.
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