Acrylic on canvas

Signed on the back.

To find her subjects, Kerry mines images gleaned from a number of popular culture sources - this particular image has been sourced from a YouTube clip. Loving the way that the model is captured in the light returning to the surface of the water, Kerry wanted to capture the uplifting scene showing the silhouetted figure with her graceful ladies wrists. On an art theory front, Kerry is particularly interested in Notan values, and this painting is an exploration in tone and is the larger realised work from an original tonal study.
Named after a line in Emily Dickinson's poem "I taste a Liquor never brewed" where Dickinson speaks of a bottomless thirst for nature's beauty - words that aptly describe Kerry's love of the light captured in this silhouette underwater.
The canvas is first painted with three layers of textural medium to give a lovely surface texture that is akin to the movement of water. And, as with most of Kerry's paintings, she has painted in layers. The background using action painting (expressionistic) techniques - pouring, dripping, splashing paint and involving my body in the painting process rather than just the paint brush. The figure was created using contemporary art pop art techniques and stencils, and a further layer of hand painting brought the foreground and background together. Kerry's palette is colourful and uses strong contrasts to capture an uplifted mood. Mostly consisting of complementary colours, Kerry also focuses on using teals and variations of red and orange.
Kerry particularly enjoys the push and pull of this piece, the joy of deciphering the figure in the light.
Painted onto un-stretched canvas, the face of the painting measures 183cm x 122cm, and Kerry has allowed a minimum of a further 8 cm all around the painting to allow for stretching by your preferred professional framer. This further 8 cm will give you a painted edge to carry around the sides of your stretched canvas.