“Follow to the Sea” belongs to my ongoing series exploring people walking along paths—moments where movement, attention, and companionship create quiet narratives. In this scene, one figure leads and then pauses, turning the path into a shared interval of waiting. That brief hesitation—waiting for the other—becomes the heart of the painting: a gesture of care that slows time and gathers both figures into the same present.

I work with a loose, luminous palette—greens lifting from the scrub, blues opening toward the horizon, sandy violets in the shadows of the trail. The lead figure’s pause softens the forward pull; the follower’s steps carry a lingering rhythm. Edges dissolve where light falls across shoulders and leaves, allowing the sea to appear not as a destination fixed in space, but as a promise hovering in the distance.

The brushwork alternates between brisk marks and quieter blends to echo the pace of walking and the stillness of waiting. Color glazes knit the figures to the path so that companionship shows up as atmosphere as much as narrative. The small act of waiting becomes a signal fire—an everyday kindness made visible by sun and dust.

Within the series, each path studies a different inflection of togetherness: leading, following, drifting apart, returning. “Follow to the Sea” focuses on the pause—the breath between steps—where the journey is measured not only by distance but by regard for the one beside you.