Cable Bay, Nelson
"Curvy Cable Bay", Nelson. Original South Island landscape painting.
Dimensions: 900mm wide x 600mm tall, plus the framing.
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Nelson's Cable Bay is a bit of a locals' best kept secret, being slightly off the tourist trail.
Tasman Bay and the ocean is precariously and somewhat awkwardly joined to a muddy tidal inlet, via a causeway that leads to Peppin Island. At low tide, it's blue on one side, and mud brown on the other.
A lot of my work celebrates either the humble tidal mud flat, or majestic New Zealand mountains. So this was the perfect composition for one of my works - a good ol' mud flat, paired with a geometric, peaky NZ mountains range!
The greens give a sense of peace and tranquility. The foreground hills are curvy, leading to the harder, peaky mountains behind, with the sheep in the foreground adding some life.