Sea Pool V, at High Tide

Oil painting on canvas, size 60 x 76 cms, framed in a simple white box frame.  This work (the fifth in the series) is based on a glorious sea swimming pool built into the rocks at Bude in Cornwall. The pool is over 45m long fed by the sea every high tide.  As a lifelong swimmer and water polo player, swimming pools have always been wonderful places to me especially if they are outdoors. When I discovered this huge, elemental sea pool at Bude I was thrilled, and I know this pool will inspire me for some time to come.  In this painting the pool takes up over 95% of the painting with a couple of te very slack lane ropes and steps showing.  The painting was built up in layers and an oil pouring technique was also used with a quick drying medium.