Still Water
Private collection · River and marsh · 2023- Medium
- Oil, soft edges
- Support
- Linen and oak panel
- Sizes
- 40 × 70 cm to 60 × 100 cm
- Painted
- Spring 2023
- Shown at
- Private collections
- Available
- Prints of Islands
On the coast there are maybe ten days a year with no wind at all. I wait for them.
These three were painted on calm days in the spring of 2023: two at the lakes inland and one at the headland south of town.
A still lake is hard to paint because nothing tells you where the water starts. I keep one small mark, a sail or a rock, to break the mirror.
Plates 03 Still Water · 2023
Palette notes
Soft edges everywhere, except one. The sail in Small Sail is the only hard edge in the whole painting, so the eye goes there first.
- Edges
- Soft, with one hard edge
- Days
- Three windless days
Still Water, Headland
Oil · 40 × 70 cm · 2023
“It is the quietest painting in the house, and the one guests ask about.”
One painter, one studio, still water.
Full credits
Behind the series
- Painted by
- Odile Marrow
- Stretchers
- Teo Lindqvist
- Frames
- Ashby and Rowe, Wrenhaven
- Photography of the works
- Mira Castell
- Shown by
- Private collection
And ten days a year without wind.