Dark and foreboding, Granville Harbour | works on paper
Coming home after a ‘plein air’ workshop with Press West, I was deeply inspired and moved by not only by artists I met over the three day stay, but by the expedition to Granville Harbour.
It had the feeling of isolation, yet there were houses and shacks, and the odd camper and some trail bike enthusiasts.
… something about the colours of the terrain evoked a sense of melancholia and after hearing stories about drowned fishermen found tangled in ribbons of kelp along the coast it isn’t surprising that my imagination went towards the Grimm tales!
Basaltic and quartz rocks, yellow and green lichen, ravens salt air and sea spray, large kelp rising through the waves. The tea trees stripped bare and cut into strange veined and pinched forms are strange and foreboding, silhouetted against the milky grey sky.
Granville Harbour
