OA 23 Hotel Lobby (Not Miami)
Nan Collantine
oil and oil bar on canvas
90x90cm

OA 24 Hot sand car feet
Nan Collantine
oil and oil bar on canvas
90x90cm

OA 25 Ooh la la
Nan Collantine
oil and oil bar on canvas
90x90cm

OA 20 Thin ice skating
Nan Collantine
oil and oil bar on canvas
90x90cm

Oceans Apart No.21 Every Day I Rewrite the Book by Nancy Collantine

2021 Oceans Apart #20-24

The second group of paintings in the Oceans Apart series. All 90x90cm square, oil and oil stick on canvas.

Working from the grids of my studio windows on the fifth floor of a former textile mill and the horizon I can see beyond, these paintings are part of a year-long project exploring the motif of the window as a device to structure space, create tension and as a way to abstract the Northern light and the landscape.

As the series developed, these took an introspective turn, carving up the landscapes, rotating the horizons on their axis and warming up the palette; opening it up for intuitive action to take place. Responding to and against the margins and the edges, subconscious forms and ideas emerged within windows that by now have now taken on a significant screen-like shape, virtual windows to casual escapism.

Colours that crowd and lean in too close against one another, a fantastical pink-bathed landscape, winking sunglasses, hotel lobbies, sandy beach bodies and scripted waves, this second group of paintings in the Oceans Apart series is an altogether inward looking experience.