Daybreak 2016

Rose Freymuth-Frazier made this painting, called Daybreak, with oil on canvas. Look at how the paint handling feels so immediate, as if the artist was really there, in that place, watching the sunrise. The surface is built from thin, transparent layers of paint, with richer, more opaque strokes layered on top, especially in the foreground. I love how the artist captures the reflective quality of the water. The way the light bounces off the surface, mirroring the colours and shapes of the sky. This is no photorealistic rendering of the scene, it’s more like a feeling, an expression of the artist's response to that particular moment, and that particular place. It reminds me of Turner, his paintings of light and atmosphere. Both artists invite us to see the world in a new way, to appreciate the beauty of fleeting moments, and to embrace the inherent ambiguity of experience. There's a dialogue happening.