That Morning Light (Original, Signed and Framed)

Painting Size: 70cm x 55cm

Oil Painting on Fabriano Oil Paper

A postcard from Portugal! 

This is the view from the balcony of the apartment I am staying in, just on the outskirts of the Lagos old town. Well, naturally it is my 'interpretation' of the view, in which I wanted to capture an essence of 'holiday' - that feeling when you pull back the curtains in a completely new environment and take in the vista that awaits you. 

For me the light in the morning here is so clean, when the sky is without even a wisp of cloud - if that makes sense? As if there was a lens, deeply polished through which the view shines.  It only happens for a short time, like a flower full with glossy petals in a vase before it realises it's been cut from its root.  I've sat, looking at this view most mornings with a freshly brewed coffee steaming in my hands, the birds singing and the sunlight on my face.

“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.”

-James Turrell

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