I’m increasingly finding myself illustrating images of ocean ripples. There’s something endlessly fascinating about the way water moves. The calm and chaos of wave pattern is very inspiring. Looking back over the past few months I can’t seem to stop exploring this across several different projects. Here are some: 

One piece is a limited edition screen print created with 4 metallic inks. Called High Seas. The printing process was great fun layering metallic inks on top of one another until they caught the light just right. I wasn’t entirely sure how the metallic layers would interact, and that uncertainty made the final layer I hand printed all the more satisfying.

The turbulence of lines and mark-making creates Immersive waves and lines vanishing into the ocean’s horizon.

With another project I took to using the Gabor procedural generation node system in Blender, I built an animated abstract image of ocean ripples. 

The above animation was created as a build up artwork before the screen print, which i then converted into colour separations ready for printing.

I’ve even returned to physical painting, exploring how brushstrokes can mimic the movement of waves. Each medium reveals a different side of my creative process from the same  source of inspiration.