Time After Time

This painting was inspired by the view from the cottage where we stay on St. Croix. I spend many hours on our front porch each winter, watching the panoramic view which stretches below us and far to the west. I love to look at the huge sky and the Caribbean Sea, as both continually change throughout the day and the night. One day last January, I came up with the idea of painting the view multiple times on one sheet of watercolor paper, to capture the changing colors, shadow patterns, activity, sunrise and sunset, twinkling lights, stars and moon that can be seen over the course of one day. “Time After Time” is the result. The first image in the upper left is just before dawn, followed by sunrise, then moving through the day and ending, lower right, with a full moon shining over the water. The viewpoint is exactly the same in each little painting. A few details have been added into several of the paintings such as the iconic seaplanes and an historic schooner, but otherwise each painting began with the same land masses and shapes of sky and water. It was great fun and quite challenging to paint the same viewpoint and identical shapes over and over again, varying the light, colors, and details just enough to express the changes throughout a 24 hour period of time. So speaking of time ... choosing a title for this painting was quite difficult. I wanted to express the idea of time passing on the island; I toyed with words such as daily, tropical, passage, hours, island, moments, paradise, change, and on and on and on. When “Time After Time” popped into my mind, I knew it was just right! Simple, concise, descriptive, and repetitive, just like the painting.

This painting is presently not for sale, but it has been made into a limited edition giclee, printed on archival, acid free watercolor paper and measuring 15.5 by 21.5 inches. I am personally numbering and signing each giclee.

“Time After Time”

giclee printed on archival, watercolor paper, 15.5 x 21.5"

$195.00

available directly from my studio, in North Carolina

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if you are on St. Croix, they are available exclusively from Many Hands Gallery Christiansted!

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