Oil on wood
Signed on the front.
Big Sur was painted in tribute to my Aunt Molly who was a War Bride marrying an American Airman and raising eight children in America. Last year saw the reunion of this family and all their Australian cousins, thus this American painting.
“The classic drive through Big Sur, along twisting Highway 1, offers plenty of pullovers at places like seen-it-in-a-million-car-commercials Bixby Bridge. Stop at parks along the coastline and look up to see endangered California condors, North America’s largest birds, or look down to scan the swells for migrating whales or sea otters floating among dense beds of kelp, California’s signature seaweed. Campgrounds abound, like Big Sur Campground, Fernwood Resort, Riverside Campground, and Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. The region’s beauty also makes it a magnet for exclusive, splurge-worthy hotels like the cliff-hugging Post Ranch Inn, or luxurious Ventana.
“Big Sur is more a state of mind than a place to pinpoint on a map, and when the sun goes down, the moon and the stars are the area's natural streetlights. (That's if summer’s fog hasn’t extinguished them.) Raw beauty and an intense maritime energy characterize this land shoehorned between the Santa Lucia Range and the Pacific Ocean, and a first glimpse of the craggy, unspoiled coastline is a special moment”.
As are all my paintings Big Sur was a pleasure to paint taking approximately four weeks to paint. It was painted from my photos on our magnificent trip down the California Coast Line.
Unframed this is a large painting 120x60 cm painted on Specially Prepared Board.