Gondolier in Action
- Heavily textured acrylics on boxed canvas, painted with palette-knives
- 50cm x 70cm
- To capture the drama of
this situation, I used a
palette knife and mostly cold
blue and green acrylics
using heavy texture to depict
the struggle this gondolier
is having to cross the wide, exposed
lagoon with uncustomary waves making
his job a lot harder than
usual! He hasn't the bottom
of the shallow canals to push
the gondola along with his
long wooden pole, but has to
row and try to balance the
narrow, canoe-like vessel all
the way across to the
other Islands