Artist: Cynthia Howard
Year: 2021
Materials: Giclée print produced on 310gsm Canson cotton rag with 12 colour pigment ink. Archival Museum quality.
Edition: Open Edition
Dimensions: A4 (21 x 29.7cm)
Location: Sydney, Australia
Other info: Delivered rolled in a tube
About the artwork:
“The Sunburnt Fisherman is a stream of consciousness painting executed straight onto oil paper with no preplanning or sketching.
I don’t like wasting paint and at the time I created this painting I would use any left over paint to tone the surface of any oil paper or canvas I had around for the next project which is what I did here with some left over red paint.
In this painting a sunburnt fisherman gazes out with tired eyes. His skin matches the red sky alluding to the idea that he is one with this harsh environment. His headwear is somewhere between a Baker Boy hat and a Crown topped with gold cross. On the horizon of the green sea there is a boat with two fishermen. One reaches down into the water, their arm becoming one with the boat and the ocean.
When I look at this image I wonder about the lives of the people pictured. The body of the fisherman is boney and burnt, he looks tired, and yet with his upright posture, forward gaze and crown he also looks noble and authoritative. I simultaneously feel for the subjects in the painting with the harsh conditions they endure (I imagine them working endless long days to look this way) and at the same time I appreciate the nobleness that I imagine they must have in their unparalleled knowledge of the sea and the tenacity and endurance required for their work. My father was a Plumber by trade, very stoic in his manner and in his spare time would tirelessly work in the community often by volunteering his trade skills to fix things for people in need, so perhaps that is subconsciously affecting my relationship with this painting. “ – Cynthia Howard
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