Seascape - print of an acrylic painting by Rory McLaren

ARTIST STATEMENT: My aim was to show the way the ocean interacts with the coast and rocks that scatter the shoreline. I was inspired by artists like Kurt Jackson and Maggi Hambling, who are British artists who have dedicated time to studying the way in which water moves. I too was captured by this and wanted to try and convey this as a painting. I have also been inspired by the countless movements against pollution especially that of plastics in our ocean and so added pieces of discarded fishing nets and rope (which I found on the same part of the coast as the subject of my painting) to the edges of my canvas encroaching onto the rocks and overflowing from the painting. ABOUT THE ARTIST: This piece is Shortlisted in the 2021 Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prize in Guernsey. Rory created this piece aged 17 while a student at Elizabeth College, studying Art at Ladies College Art Department.