Original Works / Blue Serenity

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Blue Serenity

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
101 × 101 × 3.8 cm (40 × 40 × 1.5 in)
Year
2025
Price
£3800
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In the quiet landscape of Finchingfield dusk settles with a softness that seems to suspend the world. From this pale light the geese emerge as if rising from a blue serenity that belongs to both colour and emotion. In this work I wanted to show how a moment of observation can unfold into an inner experience, how a flock becomes more than form and movement and turns into a quiet state of awareness.

The birds appear through layers of ultramarine and translucent light, their bodies almost dissolving yet keeping a firm contour that guides the eye between outer motion and inner stillness. The warm glow above the village interrupts the cool scene and creates a delicate threshold where time seems to pause. Each shifting veil of colour carries the patience of long looking, the slow act of allowing vision to become meaning.

AwardHighly Commended prize, Open Art Competition 2025, The Godfrey Pilkington Art Gallery, St Helens