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This is an acrylic painting on 6 canvases joined together by wooden framework. It began life as a painting of Arran (bottom left canvas.) I subsequently returned to the beach on Saltcoats from where I sat on a boulder, painted Arran and then extended the image with 2 more canvases taking in a line of buildings in Ardrossan that can be seen as you look across the bay from the same spot. I then added the 3 top canvasses which give this painting the big sky. The sky is the biggest and most obvious feature of the finished picture. I've spent a fair time looking at the sky and looking at clouds. On those baking hot days when you have a blue sky if you really gaze into that blue you get a sense of depth, or a sense of height and you get a sense of the deepness of the blue colour. That thought was in my mind with this sky. The deep blue and orange in the clouds make this, I would say, the depiction of the evening of what may have been a hot summer day. Photos are a great aid but have you ever noticed on the occasion when you saw something impressive in nature, you take a photo of it and then you are disappointed by the photo? I think there are various reasons for this but one of them is to do with scale. What you see through your eyes is a picture on a huge scale. Put that image on an A5 print and its profound impact is gone. This painting is fairly big and I think that helps to retain some sense of the impact that you feel when you look at a big sky. I sometimes feel that the framing gives you the impression that you are looking through a window.
