Landscapes, Seascapes — gouache painting by Ray Patrick
Ranks of cloud over a flat coastal strip, with a thin line of buildings and trees at the horizon and a glimpse of blue water at the lower left.
Nine tenths sky. The horizon runs level across the lower fifth and the cloud is stacked in four or five ranks that shorten as they recede, which carries all the depth.
Cerulean and teal through the sky with cloud in dove grey, sage and a pale mint — an unusually green set of greys. The land is olive with small warm flecks.
Flat dabs laid in horizontal ranks, each a separate loaded touch with its edges left showing, so the sky reads as built rather than brushed. The land is a single band of quick marks.
Gouache on paper. Matte and opaque; painted to a hard edge with a white margin round it. Photographed on a spiral sketchbook of ink drawings, which is beneath the work rather than part of it.
Along the lower edge, raypatrick, in ochre over the land, letters widely spaced.