2018
36 x 48"
Oil on Canvas
"Breaking on the Shore of Dawn" (36 x 48") captures that transcendent moment when night finally yields to day—when the first light breaks over dark water, when waves catch and reflect that initial golden glow, when everything transforms.
Working with oil on canvas, I built up explosive passages of deep burgundy and crimson that suggest night's last hold on the world, punctuated by brilliant blues and whites where water catches dawn's first light. Golden yellows burst through—sunlight breaking the horizon, illuminating spray and foam. The painting embodies collision: night meeting day, darkness meeting light, wave meeting shore, sleep meeting waking.
The title works on multiple levels—waves physically breaking on shore at dawn, but also day breaking (arriving), and perhaps something in the viewer breaking open to receive new light. I wanted to capture not just what dawn looks like but what it feels like: that moment of transformation when the world moves from one state to another, when what seemed permanent (night, darkness) proves temporary.
This is dawn as event, as phenomenon, as the daily miracle of light returning.
Professional-grade oil on canvas. Edges painted, ready to hang. Signed on back. Certificate included.
2018
36 x 48"
Oil on Canvas
"Breaking on the Shore of Dawn" (36 x 48") captures that transcendent moment when night finally yields to day—when the first light breaks over dark water, when waves catch and reflect that initial golden glow, when everything transforms.
Working with oil on canvas, I built up explosive passages of deep burgundy and crimson that suggest night's last hold on the world, punctuated by brilliant blues and whites where water catches dawn's first light. Golden yellows burst through—sunlight breaking the horizon, illuminating spray and foam. The painting embodies collision: night meeting day, darkness meeting light, wave meeting shore, sleep meeting waking.
The title works on multiple levels—waves physically breaking on shore at dawn, but also day breaking (arriving), and perhaps something in the viewer breaking open to receive new light. I wanted to capture not just what dawn looks like but what it feels like: that moment of transformation when the world moves from one state to another, when what seemed permanent (night, darkness) proves temporary.
This is dawn as event, as phenomenon, as the daily miracle of light returning.
Professional-grade oil on canvas. Edges painted, ready to hang. Signed on back. Certificate included.