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Seeing nature is similar to navigating through multiple currents and tidal changes, where the painter embraces the balance between the physical and the emotional when creating an image. It is thanks to contemplation that organic patterns of the changes are offered and with that the basis of the elements in the painting such as light, space, color (to name a few).
Painting plein air studies are essential and these inform us of the complexity of the narrative, as well as the decision-making that was carried out and as a support in the elaboration of studio paintings. In this case those that are based on the studies themselves.
Thus, understanding scientific phenomena and at the same time formulating the totality of sensory experience when facing nature, exposed to it, I close my eyes and think about what the composition describes about me and what it represents from my winner thoughts and ideal.
* This painting was made in the studio, after a plein air study I did months ago during a short trip to the coast.