Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

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The Ambiguity of Water is an original, acrylic painting created using a limited palette of titanium white and phthalo blue. It was an opportunity to explore the texture of canvas and different applications of paint within the context of minimal colour choice.

Thematically, the piece was driven by contemplating the nature of water. Water can naturally occur as a liquid, solid or a gas. No human intervention is needed, although we certainly can and do intervene as we see fit. So water is kind of ambiguous. From this point I settled on depicting a snowy wilderness in keeping with what has been at times a cold winter in Australia and snow has fallen. Phthalo blue and the canvas texture, hints at a rocky landscape submerged underneath soft, white snow.

Yet when I showed it to my daughter she saw waves. A friend on instagram saw frothy water coming down the rocks on a mountain. Herein, lies the delicious ambiguity that is at the core of what the artist creates, particularly with expressive pieces. Ideas and paint flow like water, taking the artist in various directions. Then on completion of the piece, the artist contemplates and evaluates what has transpired. From here, the ambiguity continues as what the artist had in mind and how this was expressed with the interpretation of the viewer.

The Ambiguity if Water was painted with artist quality acrylic paints on acid free Museo canvas. It is ready to hang.