Landscapes — oil painting by Ray Patrick
A stretch of coast at evening reduced almost to abstraction — bands of water and land, with two orange forms that read as lit rock at the centre left.
Entirely horizontal, built from eight or nine stacked bands of unequal depth. There is no horizon as such and no sky; the picture is read as a sequence of strata rather than a view.
Violet and periwinkle at the top through teal and olive to brown and near-black at the base. Two strokes of cadmium orange are the only warm notes and they carry the whole picture.
Broad flat strokes dragged horizontally with a loaded brush, each band a single pass, with the colour beneath breaking through where the paint runs thin. The orange is laid last and left untouched.
Oil on canvas board. Moderately loaded with the weave reading through; photographed on a spiral sketchbook of ink drawings, which is beneath the work rather than part of it.
Right of centre, raypatrick, in emerald over the dark water, letters touching.