'POOLSIDE 66’ is painted using oil and acrylic on canvas. It is a large painting on an artist’s high quality Windsor and Newton stretcher which is warp resistant.
 
The painting is made using large brushstrokes and the texture of the paint and brush marks are visible on the surface of the canvas.
 
This painting was created after a relative sent me a photograph that his father had taken when he was in the Middle East beside a pool in the Lebanon in 1966 when he was on a break. My relative had been digitising all of the slides of his father’s images and when he discovered it sent it to me. Immediately the faded sepia tones, and particular details in the image, the towels parasols and beautiful aqua light made me want to make this painting.