Mike Bernard
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Description
Amalfi from the Jetty looks back at the town from the water, with a wooden jetty leading in from the foreground towards the seafront. The harbour front rises in a bank of pale buildings in cream, ochre and pink, packed closely together up the slope, with windows, shutters, arches and terracotta roofs picked out across the facades. A domed church tower stands near the centre, with a further tower and dome to the right, and dark mountainsides climb steeply on both sides to frame the town against a blue sky. Along the waterfront a line of awnings, umbrellas and small figures marks the quayside, with a street lamp set against the buildings on the left, while boats sit moored in the blue water to the right of the jetty and reflections break up the surface below. Fragments of printed paper are worked into the buildings, with sections of text left legible in places across the facades, and acrylic is applied over the collage in warm cream, ochre and pink for the architecture, set against the strong blue of the sky and the water. Detail in the windows, arches and quayside is drawn out in fine black line over the layered surface, with the darker tone of the mountains behind the town, and the texture of the collaged and painted surface is carried through into the finished picture.