Peter Wileman
Breaking Wave
Oil on Canvas
80 x 80 cms / 31½ x 31½ inches
Signed 'Wileman' (lower left)
Description
Breaking Wave depicts a coastal horizon seen across a wide expanse of water, where a distant shoreline forms a dark horizontal band beneath an open sky. The sea occupies much of the foreground as a deep field of blue, its reflective surface interrupted by a vertical cascade of light and colour rising near the centre of the composition. Above the horizon, warm tones of orange, pink and pale yellow break through cooler passages of blue, suggesting the moment when light spreads across the sky.