Woman Photographing Another on the Beach

(2023), acrylic & oil on canvas. 8x10​

Woman with Purple Hair on the Beach

​(2023) acrylic & oil on canvas, 10x8​

Speakerphone on the Beach

​(2023) acrylic & oil on canvas, 10x8​

Orange Abstraction on the Beach

​8x10, 2023, acrylic & oil on canvas

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Manicures Drying on the Beach

​8x10, 2024, acrylic & oil on canvas

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3 on the Beach at Night

​(2023) acrylic, oil, and glitter on canvas, 24x30

4 Women with Pink Hair on the Beach 

(2023), acrylic & oil on canvas, 8x10​

2 Women in the Ocean

​8x10, 2024, acrylic & oil on canvas

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Cross- Legged Brown Woman with Gold Hair on the Beach

​8x10, 2024, acrylic & oil on canvas

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2 Women Walking on Water on the Beach at Night 

(2023), acrylic & oil on canvas. 8x10​

Statement: 

All living things activate in the presence of sand and water, day and night. The marvelous thing about beach is that the environment can simultaneously arouse a zen-like sense of calm, openness, joy, wonder, and creativity, but also maniacal fear of sharks, unbearable itchiness from jellyfish, and hair frizz.

When I spend time at the beach (mostly in car-free towns of Fire Island, NY), I bring colored pens and pencils to capture people, creatures, and things in that habitat. I then translate these drawings to acrylics and oil on canvas. I use glitter to create special lighting and 3D effects.

I am attracted to human figures as I find them. I NEVER ask anyone to pose for me. I imagine the figures as I 'see' them: people flying, fish swimming through sand strata, stringy neon-pink hair, and landscape layers of bright colors.

All creatures activate in the presence of sand & water, day & night.

Geometry and ROYGBIV manifestation fascinate me.

Fish Walking on the Beach

​(2024) acrylic & oil on canvas, 8x10

Andrea Bass