DELANEY
  • Home
  • Current
    • Indoor Sculpture
    • Outdoor Sculpture
    • Impasto Paintings
    • Paintings
    • Doorways
    • Body Prints
    • Body Print Portraits
    • Other Prints
    • The Wilds
    • Boulders Sculptures
  • 2015 – 2022
    • New York
    • Ghosts of Johannesburg
    • Congressional Cemetery
    • Johannesburg/Beginnings
    • Cosmopolitan
    • Footprints Commissioner
    • Footprints NYC JHB
    • Other Paintings
  • 2010 – 2014
    • Palimpsest
    • Aerial (Creation)
    • Trees
    • Baobabs
    • Sketches
    • Other
  • 2005 – 2009
    • Abstract Landscapes
    • Epic Sky
  • Pre – 2003
    • Early Work
  • Blog
  • Commissions
  • In the Studio
  • Exhibitions
  • Biography
  • Contact
Instagram
Pinterest

Aerial (Creation)

This body of work from the 2012 exhibition titled Creation reflects organic shapes carved out of landscape by water as seen from the air – the beauty of looking at the earth from an aeroplane window. The artist uses the flow of watery paint across a horizontal canvas (they are painted on the floor of the studio) to mimic the way the landscape was formed, before overlaying with thin washes of oil to refine structure and colour.

The hues and formal elements that emerge highlight the abstract nature that the land takes on when viewing it from above. The images have a fractal quality. in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and so the perspective of the viewer defines what is seen.

Karoo Flood

Karoo Flood

Oil on Canvas · 150 x 260 cm · Sold
Okavango Close-up

Okavango Close-up

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
The movements of Crocodiles

The movements of Crocodiles

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
Ephemeral Salt Pan

Ephemeral Salt Pan

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
The Timor Sea

The Timor Sea

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
Pel’s Island

Pel’s Island

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
Okavango Waterways

Okavango Waterways

Oil and acrylic on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm
Okavango Aerial 4

Okavango Aerial 4

Oil on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
Okavango Aerial 3

Okavango Aerial 3

Oil on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold
Okavango Aerial 2

Okavango Aerial 2

Oil on Canvas · 120 x 120 cm · Sold

Posts pagination

1 2 >
Copyright © 2003 - 2025 James Delaney Artist. Website by App Inlet.