Nightfall

A woman in a teal swimsuit and sunhat sits with her knees drawn up on a dark, weathered boulder, gazing out over the water. Below and behind her the sea stretches to a rocky headland, its surface broken into countless flecks of white light. The foreground is filled with the smooth, folded bulk of shoreline rocks in deep green-grey, framing the small seated figure against the brightness of the water.

Thick, textured strokes of teal, white, and near-black build the sparkling sea and the coarse rock surfaces, giving the paint a heavily worked, tactile quality. Strong contrast between the sunlit water and the shadowed stone creates a dazzling passage against darker masses, and the figure is rendered simply, almost silhouetted, with an overall bright, glinting sense of midday stillness.