Grand Canal Oil

Grand Canal
Original oil painting on heavy hand made watercolour paper.
Abstractions from Venice - part of a recurring series in which I explore the greens, the insubstantiality and light qualities of Venice. Working towards abstraction gives the elements I am interested in the freedom to take shape in the painting.
Poetry and painting mingle together in these paintings of Venice as I remember the light airy canals, the vast planes of sea, the flat slivers of light.
Size of painting
16.5 x 11.5 inches
42 x 29 cm

This original oil painting by me Elizabetha Fox is inspired by a winter holiday to Venice. The temperature was -5 but the light and clarity of the air was fantastic. I made many sketches, and from that, made this painting.