nicholas kamuda: seascape (1)
‘sea is meeting point between the physical and intangible in both painting and landscape.’
when living in japan, kamuda would ride his bike to the beach. he liked the physical experience of being by the sea, feeling the rhythm of the sea, and never wanted to live far from it. drawing the sea is, in essence, a way of communing with the sea and its rhythms. the rhythmic movements in his drawings are variations in splashing and control. for kamuda, the experience of a highly physical mark-making process opens doors into the complex dynamics of the sea, and establishes a mental familiarity with the properties and surface of the texture of water itself.
