the sublime, after all

2023 - ongoing

oil painting

‘The sublime is not an ontology but a phenomenology, not a special essence of certain things but rather an experience of a particular kind, born out of the encounter between consciousness and the world.’^[1]

This is an ongoing series which explores the profound and awe-inspiring moments experienced through the encounter between consciousness and seascapes.

^[1] Levine, Steven Z. “Seascapes of the Sublime: Vernet, Monet, and the Oceanic Feeling.” New Literary History, vol. 16, no. 2, 1985, pp. 377–400. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/468752. Accessed 15 Jan. 2024.

Seascape I-II (Margate), 2023

Oil on canvas board

254 x 203 mm