Flow; original oil painting by Jessica Fairley

The wave arrives, spreads itself thin across the sand, and retreats. Flow captures this fleeting moment from above — a curling turquoise wave dissolving into a lace of white sea foam over warm caramel sand, while a pair of tiny shorebirds pick their way along the water’s edge, unbothered by the surge and pull of the tide.

Painted in oil, this composition is all about pattern and stillness. The intricate tracery of the foam, the swirling pools of blue-green water caught in the sand, the contrast between the cool ocean and the warm beach — it is a painting about the rhythm of the sea and the small, unhurried lives lived at its edge. 

• Original oil painting
• Subject: Wave and sea foam on beach, view with shorebirds
• Original artwork by Jessica Fairley