Ocean Rivers is less about the horizon as a boundary than the movement gathering around it.
After sunset, cool blue light settles over the Pacific while the long exposure draws clouds into soft horizontal forms and turns the surface of the ocean into pale flowing channels. Pink remains briefly in the fading light, suspended between the deeper blues of sea and sky.
The photograph moves between seascape and abstraction. The horizon remains the quiet anchor, but almost everything around it appears to be moving. Water becomes pattern; clouds become colour; time becomes visible.
I am drawn to that moment after the sun has disappeared, when the eastern sky briefly carries light that feels detached from daytime. The camera holds it for longer than the eye can.
The sea remains recognisable. Time is what makes it unfamiliar.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Horizon
Title: Ocean Rivers
Artwork: #6972
Location: Stanwell Tops, East Coast Australia
Subject: Pastel clouds and Pacific Ocean
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Long exposure
Format: 3:2 landscape
Genre: Abstract seascape / fine art landscape photography
Themes: Horizon, time, movement, ocean, fading light
Edition: Limited Edition — maximum 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Ocean Rivers is less about the horizon as a boundary than the movement gathering around it.
After sunset, cool blue light settles over the Pacific while the long exposure draws clouds into soft horizontal forms and turns the surface of the ocean into pale flowing channels. Pink remains briefly in the fading light, suspended between the deeper blues of sea and sky.
The photograph moves between seascape and abstraction. The horizon remains the quiet anchor, but almost everything around it appears to be moving. Water becomes pattern; clouds become colour; time becomes visible.
I am drawn to that moment after the sun has disappeared, when the eastern sky briefly carries light that feels detached from daytime. The camera holds it for longer than the eye can.
The sea remains recognisable. Time is what makes it unfamiliar.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Horizon
Title: Ocean Rivers
Artwork: #6972
Location: Stanwell Tops, East Coast Australia
Subject: Pastel clouds and Pacific Ocean
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Long exposure
Format: 3:2 landscape
Genre: Abstract seascape / fine art landscape photography
Themes: Horizon, time, movement, ocean, fading light
Edition: Limited Edition — maximum 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
