At the Sea of Cortez

It was a blistering hot summers day (a rare thing in London this year) when I saw this guy sitting on the bank of the Thames, not far from the London Eye. He was playing with a stick (which looked like a primitive fishing rod) at the waters edge.

I found the pose and setting very nostalgic and reminiscent of a character belonging to a Steinbeck or Mark Twain book.

So, not sure if it would work well on canvas, I painted it small . . . 10’ x 10”  (At the Sea of Cortez). It was such fun to paint and I was so enamoured with the results that I painted another version, larger, 30” x 30” (called the second  one A Steinbeck Moment) . . . I ended up going out and buying Grapes of Wrath . . .with a view to reading it again soon.

These paintings will be in my exhibition at the GX Gallery in October.