
Open Rock Pool, Seaward
Boronia Beach Reserve
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$1,100.00
Image size: 68 x 48cm
Medium: Reduction Linocut in Oil
Paper: Fabriano Artistico
Limited Edition of 5
Winner: Printmaking and Drawing, Huon Art Awards, 2025
Shimmering shades of emerald water in the rock pool shallows form complex and ever-moving patterns, merging into blue tones as the water deepens out to sea.
This open rock pool near Boronia Beach, southern Tasmania, is a vibrant slice of natural beauty right in the midst of suburbia where local families come to swim in the fresh seawater.
In this artwork I use reduction linocut printing to create transparent layers of greens, blues and yellows to depict the effect of translucent light shining up through the water column. The sharp edges typical of this medium are used to emphasize the contrast between bright surface-reflected sunlight, and richer, deeper tones of the water.



