Siren's Vine - 30 x 15

The ethereal quality of this piece suggests fluidity under the ocean. The background is the color of shallow tropical water, and the central form a deep-sea kelp or coral floating gently in a current, placing the subject in an ethereal, liquid world, removed from air and gravity.  

The palette is almost entirely composed of cool blues and teals, with rich cobalt blue, cerulean blue, and light teal forming the leaves, and mixed with white and occasional flecks of yellow-green and bright yellow, concentrated along the central stem.  Siren's Vine was created using fluid art such that colors of paint flow and merge organically and creating a glossy, marbled surface that suggests movement, water, or melting wax.

Restricting the palette almost entirely to blues and teals creates a dreamlike state. It is visualized in the cool, calming, and limitless space of the subconscious mind.The fluid art technique makes the leaves appear solidified waves or plumes of liquid light.  High gloss and merging colors give the sense that the object is in a perpetual state of melting or shimmering, suggesting an ephemeral, transient beauty.

Defined by flow and rhythm, the leaves suggest a slow, silent ascent or descent through a vast, silent space, giving the plant an almost ghostly, weightless existence.

At 30" x 15", this abstract acrylic work on a gallery wrap canvas (2" depth) exudes a sense of tropical ocean in an elaborate and stylish wall mounting.