Original oil on board
80cm x 100cm
 
This painting has been accepted as a finalist in the Hunter Emerging Artist Prize 2025.
 
Exhibition held at Newcastle Art Space 91 Chinchen Street Tighes Hill from July 11-27. 
 
Available to view and purchase at the exhibition.
 
Inspired by an early morning swim at Wylie's Baths in Coogee, where the sunlight was the hot bright February kind and the natural rock bottom created all sorts of beautiful distorted patterns.
 
Interesting things can happen to light waves as they pass through water, behaving much like a glass prism, splitting them into their full spectrum of colours.
 
Like a mythical shapeshifter, these ribbons of dispersed light are glimpsed only briefly.