Passing Tides (Canvas Print)

“Passing Tides” is looking straight out to sea from Manly Beach. Candyss lives and works in Sydney’s Northern Beaches and walks daily along the local beaches and sandy shores of Manly, Shelly Beach, Curl Curl and Queenscliff. She contemplates and sketches around the rockpools and cliffs. These are a place of celebration and serenity – embodying memorable years living there with her family since the age of seven. Whilst walking and drawing Candyss reflects on the transformative power of the ocean upon nature. Candyss has spent many years studying and practicing meditation and yoga. In her art making water is pictured as a meditative tool – the rhythm of light reflecting on the gentle motion of the incoming tide, the light upon the cyclical moving water invokes an inward reflection. Layers deep blues and sandstone ochres are entwined with light and the deeper shadows of the ocean creating an illusory vision of the seascape that lies between the real and the remembered. “I want to transport the viewer out across the light filled waves to the infinite horizon beyond. It’s all about the feeling, light and colour.”