Swimmers Above II

An aerial view of a sun-bright sea fills the vertical canvas, painted in heavy palette-knife layers of cream, pale-blue, turquoise and white. Small stylized figures sit on yellow and ivory surfboards, scattered across the open water in loose clusters. The lower edge dissolves into a sandy beach where more bathers wade and stand at the surf line, their tiny silhouettes catching warm light. The water is sculpted into thick foam ridges that read more like worked plaster than paint, and a long diagonal break of foam runs across the upper third like a slow wave.

The palette is bright, sunny and tactile: cream, ivory, ice-blue, pale aqua and turquoise on the water, a warm sand wash at the base, with quick yellow surfboards and small flesh-tones giving the figures their pop. Because the foam is sculpted in heavy impasto, the surface itself becomes the picture — closer to relief than to a flat painting. It belongs in calm, optimistic interiors: a coastal apartment, a sunlit primary bedroom, a children's bath, a soft yoga studio.

For placement, the vertical proportion is the practical strength. It hangs beautifully above a freestanding tub, between two windows, on a stairwell, or as a tall accent in a sunlit primary bedroom. In hospitality it sits cleanly in a spa corridor, a wellness lounge, a boutique hotel bath suite, or the quiet side of a poolside lobby. Pair with bleached oak, white linen, terrazzo flooring and a single warm brass picture light.

The canvas is a hand-painted oil and the relief is unmistakable up close. Foam ridges stand more than a centimetre proud of the surface, the surfers sit as small raised tabs of paint, and the sand at the base is dragged smooth in long warm sweeps. A picture light angled from above brings out every shadow line and lets the relief carry across the room.

Hand-painted on canvas, it joins our wider range of hand-painted abstract painting.