Artist notes: A northwest wind picked up the sea and tossed it over the sandstone reefs in the bright September Sun. I gathered up a spray of ideas and returned to the studio. Blowing troubles into washes of seaweed covered oyster shells while curving over mussels and then settling into the tidal pools of possibilities. Figurative yes. Abstract in shapes and an imagined composition. Time and place resonate deeply within and between the surfaces. I decided on a diptych to capture the entangled layers of dramatic textured shapes and colours. This second painting of the same subject could only come into existence with the first but now they both can stand on their own or together.