Artist: Gordon King
Title: In a Golden Sea
Edition Size: 95
Medium: Prints - Giclee
Image Size: 19.75" x 13"
From the Artist: Figurative painting has always inspired me, the human form being my main love. The sheer wonder of creating life in paint, achieving a likeness of someone in a portrait but putting something of me in as well, or the thought that if I flicked my fingers the painting could come to life. I am a sentimentalist.

Romance, happiness and emotion can all be seen in my paintings whether it be a studio pose or the excitement of the Carnival Ball in Venice, the race goers at Royal Ascot, picnickers at Henley Regatta, or the movements of a dancer at the Royal Ballet. I am always looking for something special – it could be the way the light falls across a face, a particular look, the shadows across a floor, the texture of fabric or the sensuous feel of silk.

I also love the sea with its ever-changing colour and constant movement. My paintings of girls have seen me up to my knees in water capturing the waves around a figure walking in the sea or on wet sand trying to get in just the right position to see the mirrored reflection on the beach. The garden, too, is a frequent setting for my work. I have always been fascinated by old wheels and statues, so these have featured alongside the girls with a variety of pots and flower baskets, perhaps by the garden gate, on the stone steps or under the old apple tree.