Dappled Light on a Welsh Stream abstract painting
by Edward McNaught-Davis
Title
Dappled Light on a Welsh Stream abstract painting
Artist
Edward McNaught-Davis
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Paper
Description
Dappled Light on a Welsh Stream is an abstract painting showing a wide stream called Afon Gido that runs just yards or metres from Saint Ina’s church at Llanina in Ceredigion mid West Wales.
Then it flows immediately into the Irish Sea by the Cei Bach country club. Both places sit just above New Quay beach.
A tree lined path runs parallel to Afon Gido. The word Afon in this respect is Welsh for water or for a river or wide stream.
You can see in my painting that afternoon sunlight clips the trees, path, stream and distant foliage all of which creates a dappled effect.
The light from the moving water is reflected back and principally onto the lower trunks of the trees on the footpath.
Faces of people and animals appeared within this painting that I did not consciously paint in. They just appeared.
You can see an obvious one on the tree trunk on the right and in the foreground. It’s a face in profile looking at the stream.
To me it looks male. His facial colours are basically white to represent light with an interrupted red outline running over his forehead, nose, lips and chin and with a black ring outlining his eye.
Other faces within my picture are more subtle and blend in with this abstract composition.
You can see a white face of a bear or maybe it is a dog reflected partly on the stream in about the centre of the painting. The rest of this frontal face is displayed directly above in the assorted green foliage of the far bank.
There is a white cat too climbing up one of the dark red trees along the footpath. In addition to a feint blue frog on a foreground tree.
I hadn’t actually set out to paint this scene in an abstract way. It just happened after I had made a few quick brush marks in acrylic paint and on paper. I liked what I saw and decided to continue with its initial theme.
There are other paintings on this site that I have made and which show parts of nature in an abstract way. A few other paintings were done in the same area at Llanina too.
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February 20th, 2012
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