Artist: Debra Stroud
Title: cool Blue
Edition Size: 95
Medium: Prints - Giclee
Image Size: 16" x 16"
From the Artist: From my earliest childhood, the sea with it’s continually changing moods, has always been the greatest source of inspiration for me. There is a great sense of calm and tranquility. The sound of the waves crashing, that distinctive smell and the wind on your face – in fact the whole 3-dimensional experience. I can never tire of it and it still evokes the same excitement now as it did when I was a child – running over the pebbles and sharp shells to be first to get to the sea. It is so evocative that it drives me to try to re-create it in my paintings.

There is a wonderful luminosity and reflective light quality that surrounds the coast. Everywhere else is very flat by comparison. This light quality creates ideas and inspires me. The wild white breakers of the great Atlantic coast in Cornwall, such as Holywell Bay and Sennan Cove, and the translucent azure aquamarine tints around Studland in Dorset and Salcombe in Devon. Although I draw most of my inspiration from the coasts around the South West, I have been very much inspired by places further a field such as the Seychelles, California and South Africa.