The Sun Over Westminster

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By Phil Davis
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

60 × 79 × 1.5 cm

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Acrylic paint on canvas textured paper. Using handmade stencil, splatter paint using inks. Palette knife painting application, and paint rollers for additional texture.

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2023
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I have long been influenced by the evocative nature of colour used by Turner. For this scene of Westminster, I wanted to use a liberated and expressive colour palette, and achieve a sense of freedom in the texture and mark making to create a heightened and hallucinatory depiction of the transitional period between late afternoon into night as the sun is falling. It was my aim to capture the intensity of the colour shifts during this fleeting moment before the evening, and to portray the experience as pulsating with dynamic energy and movement, as if watching the night slowly come to life in the painting. I hoped to portray the short-lived and almost spiritual experience where the transition of the day never looked more radiant. The antique steam tugboat acts as an iconic relic of the city’s history, but comes to life into the present age for crowds of the approaching boat, and releases a jet of steam as a fitting epitaph for the approaching end of the day.

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