At Anchor
Sold in private Collection
At Anchor
Oil on canvas, 54” x 32”
At Anchor continues the exploration of the Life From Above series, where the sea becomes both subject and atmosphere — a place of movement, stillness, memory, and suspended time.
Developed from a single small watercolour study, the final oil painting expands the idea into a larger, more immersive composition. Seen from above, the anchored boat appears almost weightless, its quiet activity suggesting the preparation of a day’s bounty for delivery to the nearby dock. The dock itself, along with the small fishing boat, once existed in Soper’s Hole, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, but both were lost after Hurricane Irma.
The piece captures a delicate pause between journey and rest — a moment of calm within the vastness of the water, while also preserving a small fragment of a place that has since changed. The limited study process gave the final work a more immediate and instinctive quality, allowing the painting to retain the freshness of the original idea while developing greater depth, scale, and presence on canvas.
