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Janette Kerr – Online exhibition

Artist Janette Kerr currently has an online exhibition called State of the Sea. It’s well worth a visit and will encourage much contemplation.

Her work is powerful and very evocative of wild water, raucous waves, wind-slapping cagoule and the emotions of being at the edge, the Northern edge. She writes that ‘My paintings represent immediate responses to sound and silences within the landscape around me; they are about movement and the rhythms of sea and wind, swelling and breaking waves, the merging of spray with air, advancing rain and mist, glancing sunlight – elements that seem to be about something intangible.’.

The exhibition is at https://artnorth-magazine.com/janette-kerr

Only until 4th September.

Joseph Henderson, 1832-1908

Henderson was a close friend, and eventually father-in-law, of artist William McTaggart. He painted many seascapes, depicting the Scottish seas in different conditions and with particular attention in later work to the atmosphere and lighting of specific places.

This sequence of images (from 1stdibs website) show how he  used many pigments and complex brushwork to craft a moving breaking wave.