An Away Feel (Original, Signed and Framed)

Painting Size: 80cm x 55cm

Watercolour on heavyweight rough textured paper.

As I write this I am just over four weeks into a 2 month stay in Portugal. 

What some might expect is for me to gush about how wonderful it is, in fact it's rained hard, with a blistering wind to boot, for the past week. Don't get me wrong its good in the sense that getting a change of scenery is a potent jab for the mind and body, its good in the sense that a visit into another culture is important from a diversity awareness point of view.  But it can be hard work at times, particularly when one has travelled alone - having to bring myself with me, so to speak. In some ways any jitters of loneliness are amplified when in a new, very different place. 

That said, I've found lovely pockets of comfort.  There's a little bar, bit run down though very welcoming, at the marina here, where you can sit and look out at the boats and watch the sun setting in colours and tints I've not seen before.  There's a particular beach I've found (when the weather hasn't been shit), where on a very still day the water runs turquoise and clear, the sand is fine and dry between the toes. I hope to be back there soon. There are culinary marvels to be found now and again.  There are new acquaintances to be made at one of the many Padel tennis courts, where I've discovered Portuguese passions can run at a high frequency. 

There are stately palms, and orange trees growing from the pavement. There are old churches, cute houses and when the sun does shine, the light is brilliant and warming.  

This painting is influenced by an artist I love, Paul Klee - but its my take on a kind of holiday feeling in a coastal town, or more - an 'away' feeling.  That sense of colour and difference. 

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