Surf Coast Sunrise no. 3

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“Surf Coast Sunrise no.3” – Original Artwork by Lauren Danger.  Created in March 2024.

“Surf Coast Sunrise no.3” came from a place of wanting to shake things up.  I usually have some time off around the beginning of the year and it give me a moment to pause from what I’m usually creating. I carved out time to do whatever had come to mind.

There’s just so much to be said about colours, textures, images and techniques that I used.   I challenged myself to mix colours that I wouldn’t normally use on my palette.  This idea came from a studio play I did with my son Archer.  He mixed some colours I normally wouldn’t pair and I found some beautiful new tones to try. There was also the influence of the ocean; as I’ve been enjoying some sunrise ocean swims and I’ve been drawn to the pops of fluorescent pinks and greens amongst the more muted ocean colours.  I also found myself wanting to return to my original style of working from imagination and not from a photo.  I feel I do my best abstract work this way.

I moved from working on un stretched canvas to smaller stretched canvases to see what would happen. I started noticing myself return to techniques I hadn’t used in some time such as palette knives, especially in this artwork.  I have become more and more drawn to wanting to express limestone and cliff faces with a palette knife.  This particular view is of memory when I visit Fishermans Beach in Torquay for an ocean swim.  I love the layers of sky, land and sea and I think the palette knife worked beautifully in this layout.

I feel as thought “Surf Coast Sunrise no.2” resembles the good parts of what came out of the last few months in the studio.  I love the pop of pink against these new greens and blues I found.

This artwork has been created on a custom made stretched canvas ready to hang and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.  This artwork has been framed in a float frame made of raw oak.  You can find out all about the details of my originals here.