Sea Cliffs Rising 1995

Eyvind Earle painted this Seascape, maybe with gouache or acrylics, in an unknown year. The crisp edges and smooth color gradients suggest a meticulous approach, a real dedication to the process. Looking closely, you can see how the texture is built up with precise, almost regimented marks. The vertical lines creating the cliff faces are so straight, so uniform, it’s like he’s mapping out a world rather than just painting it. The white of the waterfall is opaque, in contrast to the translucent sky. It makes me think about how we construct our own realities, stroke by stroke. It reminds me of Giorgio de Chirico’s dreamscapes, but with a touch of something wilder, a sense of the sublime in nature. It's a conversation about the ways we see, and the worlds we build with our own hands, inviting us to consider art as a space of ongoing exploration, where ambiguity and interpretation reign supreme.