Archival pen on 425gsm Saunders Waterford paper
A2 Portrait — 42 × 59.4 cm / 16.5 × 23.4 inches
Original artwork — One of One
Glassy Snappers began during a paddleboard session at sunset. With almost no wind, the water had turned glassy — calm and mirror-like, disturbed only by small ankle snappers rolling gently across the surface.
As the waves passed through the last light of the day, different colours from the sunset began to appear within the water. Reds, pinks, purples and deeper tones folded into one another, shifting from ripple to ripple. I became fascinated by the way the movement of the water itself seemed to create the blend — breaking up the light and allowing colours to merge and reappear across the surface.
This became the starting point for the drawing. Thousands of closely worked ripple lines move across the paper, building and bending into waves. As the colours pass through them and begin to mix, the individual lines become harder to distinguish. At certain points, line, colour and movement almost dissolve into one another.
That blending is what made Glassy Snappers particularly exciting to make. It feels like the beginning of a new direction in my work — allowing colour to become part of the movement itself, rather than simply sitting within the line work.
The piece holds onto that moment on the water: a glassy surface, tiny waves and the colours of a setting sun continually shifting and blending together.
Postage & Packaging 📦
Please note: I’m posting this piece just as I close the studio and head to Corfu for a couple of weeks. Any orders placed during this time will be carefully packed and shipped week commencing 24th August when I return to the studio.
Every piece is carefully packed by Anthony and shipped via UPS with full tracking.
🖼️ Unframed — images show an example of how the artwork could look framed
📸 Some images are photographed at an angle to highlight surface detail
UK: £6 🇬🇧
Europe: £8 🇪🇺
Rest of World: £12 🌍
Archival pen on 425gsm Saunders Waterford paper
A2 Portrait — 42 × 59.4 cm / 16.5 × 23.4 inches
Original artwork — One of One
Glassy Snappers began during a paddleboard session at sunset. With almost no wind, the water had turned glassy — calm and mirror-like, disturbed only by small ankle snappers rolling gently across the surface.
As the waves passed through the last light of the day, different colours from the sunset began to appear within the water. Reds, pinks, purples and deeper tones folded into one another, shifting from ripple to ripple. I became fascinated by the way the movement of the water itself seemed to create the blend — breaking up the light and allowing colours to merge and reappear across the surface.
This became the starting point for the drawing. Thousands of closely worked ripple lines move across the paper, building and bending into waves. As the colours pass through them and begin to mix, the individual lines become harder to distinguish. At certain points, line, colour and movement almost dissolve into one another.
That blending is what made Glassy Snappers particularly exciting to make. It feels like the beginning of a new direction in my work — allowing colour to become part of the movement itself, rather than simply sitting within the line work.
The piece holds onto that moment on the water: a glassy surface, tiny waves and the colours of a setting sun continually shifting and blending together.
Postage & Packaging 📦
Please note: I’m posting this piece just as I close the studio and head to Corfu for a couple of weeks. Any orders placed during this time will be carefully packed and shipped week commencing 24th August when I return to the studio.
Every piece is carefully packed by Anthony and shipped via UPS with full tracking.
🖼️ Unframed — images show an example of how the artwork could look framed
📸 Some images are photographed at an angle to highlight surface detail
UK: £6 🇬🇧
Europe: £8 🇪🇺
Rest of World: £12 🌍