Room 08 · In Relief

The Breaking Sea

A storm-swell raised by hand — ultramarine ridges and white foam, in relief.

Hangs in In Relief, room 08 of 14: Where the pour is left behind and the pigment is built up by hand — the sea worked into a third dimension, ridge and trough you could run a thumb along; one such surface carried close through three different lights; and a sunburst raised off the canvas inside a border lettered in three tongues.