Going with the Tide

Going With the Tide, by Alanah Jarvis is a serene celebration of the ocean’s gentle rhythm and the joy found in surrendering to its flow. Sweeping bands of blue roll effortlessly across the canvas, capturing the soft rise and fall of water under an open sky. The movement feels calming yet alive, like a cherished afternoon spent by the shore, where time slows and worries dissolve into the horizon.

This 76cm x 101cm oil painting invites you to breathe deeper and embrace life’s natural currents. Its fluid brushwork and luminous tones create a sense of freedom and quiet optimism, reminding us that happiness often arrives when we trust the tide and allow ourselves to drift with it. Both expansive and intimate, this piece brings the restorative spirit of the sea into any space, filling it with lightness, clarity, and coastal nostalgia.

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Alanah Jarvis is an Australian painter working from her studio in Bayside, Melbourne, with more than 466 original works now hanging in homes across Australia and internationally. Her practice moves between two bodies of work: the Abstract Weathered Series and the Realistic Ocean Series.

The Abstract Weathered Series is grounded in wabi sabi, the idea that beauty lives in what is worn, imperfect and shaped by time. These are heavy textured artworks built through layering, palette knife and impasto work, then eroded back, so the surface carries the same marks that wind and water leave on stone, timber and earth. The palettes are drawn from Australian nature: ochre, blush, weathered white, dark green & gold. Each contemporary abstract painting is made to reward a second look, colour that shifts with the light, and texture you want to reach out and touch.

The Realistic Ocean Series turns to the coastline. Painted in oil, these seascape paintings and underwater works follow the ocean's changing light and movement, the surface from above, the stillness beneath. They bring space, breath and calm into a room.

Alanah paints on recycled polyester canvas, built to outlast natural fibre canvases. Reclaiming material that would otherwise be discarded has shaped how she works: the surface arrives with a history already in it, which suits a body of work about the marks time leaves behind. She founded Sustainable Canvas to make that material available to other artists and the range was awarded Gold for Product Innovation at the ROAR Awards, recognition for the same canvas these paintings are made on.

Alanah was named a Top 50 Small Business Leader by Inside Small Business (2025) and a Top 100 Finalist in the She-Com Business Awards (2026).

Originals ship ready to hang unless the listing states otherwise. Commissions welcome, Alanah works with collectors and interior designers on pieces made for a specific space, palette and scale.