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Beaches do differ, don't they?
Grace Butler On the beach, New Brighton Oil on canvas. Christchurch Art Gallery Trust Collection, Reproduced courtesy of Grace Adams
As one curator has perceptively written, viewers should notice how the woman's dress 'responds' to the 'sea breeze'.
Now look a the image below and notice how there isn't really any breeze at all! And notice too how there is quite a different colour palette used, even though it's the same ocean!
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Grace Butler On the Beach, New Brighton
Grace Butler was totally committed to painting en plein air, or outdoors, to truly sense and represent the atmospheres that light provided; she would even paint in the snow, placing her feet in boxes and getting her children to rotate hot water bottles and blankets to keep her warm. Completed when she was just two years out of art school and revealing her awareness of the international movement of impressionism, On the Beach, New Brighton reflects Butler’s own thoughts on the light and atmosphere where she lived.
(Endless Light, 29 June 2019 – 8 March 2020)