Acrylic & Walnut Ink on Canvas
15 x 12 cm

Praia Mole is a beach in Florianopolis, Brazil. Soft red boulders sink into the lapping Atlantic. their colours appear dull purple, coral pink and even muted cream depending on the Brazilian sunlight. The word ‘mole’ literally means ‘soft’, but their presence is also powerful and conjures notions of geological time.

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Over three weeks in Floripa I produced a body of work that investigates “the landscape of experience” of the East Coast of Brazil through the lens of how the Atlantic Ocean has shaped and moulded both the physical topography and the human experience of the land. The series of paintings I created combined colours, textures and marks to formed a vocabulary which expressed my discovery of the geography and perspectives of Brazil.