Contemporary Abstract & Mixed Media · horizontal

Heat Meets Water, Blue and Orange Swirl Abstract

A horizontal abstract of glossy, swirling shapes in blue, teal, mustard yellow and fiery orange. A broad blue current curls through the middle in spirals and teardrop eddies, with a hot red-orange area flaring on the left and a yellow-olive field across the top. Thin bright outlines trace every curve, which gives a liquid-glass look, and a fine canvas-like grain covers the surface. Pink and salmon accents appear at the lower right and right edge.

Someone wants this piece for the collision at its centre: a hot orange-red zone flaring against a cool, glossy blue current, with thin bright outlines that make every curl look like molten glass. There is no subject to decode. It is colour and motion, and it can stop a person from across the room. Many bold abstracts are a single wash of colour. This one has distinct zones (red-orange on the left, yellow across the top, a big blue mass below, pink accents on the right) and a large spiral to the right of centre that pulls the eye in. Small eddies reward a longer look. Pure visual attraction is reason enough to want it.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski