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Rod Slater

Of the many interests and passions that have come and gone in my life, art and sailing have remained. Pen and ink along with oil painting were the early mediums of choice however, while confined below deck in my yacht “Bontekoe” during a bad spell of weather in Tonga, I began experimenting with watercolours in earnest.

 

Hours of watching the sea on long passages combined with the numerous yachts I’d clambered aboard had burned images into my creative conscience that looked for release. Discovering the freedom watercolours allowed curving the hulls of ships, running fine lines to the sails and filling them with air on an undulating sea that almost moves on the paper, really set the hook.

 

In its liquid state, water is forever moving and changing in form and shape while possessing the qualities of transparency, solidity or reflectivity, sometimes all of these simultaneously. This provides an unlimited source of challenging opportunities for artistic expression and I acknowledge that I have only begun to dip below the surface of this potential.

 

Trialing acrylic paints with my resent rediscovery of motorcycles, has challenged me to capture the romance and freedom of cycling with the precision of motors and reflectivity of chrome.

 

www.rodslateraaa.com

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