Quiet Crossing, Lone Boat on Silver Water

Contemporary Abstract & Mixed Media · horizontal

A small dark green boat with a single seated person moves across a wide expanse of calm, silvery blue-grey water. A thin wake trails behind it to the right, and a faint reflection sits beneath the hull. The whole surface is covered in fine rippled texture, with darker navy tones at the top and paler grey patches below. The boat occupies only a tiny part of the horizontal frame, so the picture is mostly open water.

A collector wants this piece for the contrast in scale: one very small boat with a single seated figure, set in a huge, nearly empty field of silvery blue-grey water. A thin wake runs through the middle of the horizontal frame. The calm, spare image needs no explanation. Its fine rippled, embossed texture gives the water a tactile, painterly surface, which most boat or water pictures lack. People who want quiet, space and restraint on a wall, not a busy scene, will find it here.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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