The Rush & the Rock

This painting, created with alcohol ink on Yupo paper and embellished with gold leaf, captures the essence of seawater in wild communion with stone. It is an abstracted coastal landscape, where sweeping waves and boulders collide not in sharp outlines but in fluid suggestion.
 
The upper portion gleams with textured gold leaf — a sunlit rock face — anchoring the composition with elemental solidity. Below, veils of crimson, rust, ivory, and pale blue dissolve into one another like churning surf, their translucent trails evoking the motion of water cascading over weathered stone.
 
Rich, inky pools hint at deep shadows cast by submerged rocks, while paler washes resemble the spray and foam of breaking waves. There is a rhythm here: a pulsing tide, a breath of salt air, a moment held in motion.
 
A gilded edge holds fast against the tide,
as sea surges in colour and motion.
Crimson currents curl and crash,
while boulders gleam with ancient calm.
This is the meeting of movement and stillness—
the hush before the wave,
the weight beneath its fall.