Vancouver is a busy port city. Tankers wait in English Bay before being able to enter Burrard Inlet to dock and discharge crude oil.The tankers look peaceful in the morning sea fog which burns off as the sun burns off the mist. There always is a question: Where is the light coming from? It's the light that gives volume to the silhouette in a shape - the tanker.
Time is money. The tankers are always waiting to get in and out of the port so that they can go to pick up another load.
Marcus Bowcott captures the morning stillness and highlights the tankers massiveness and its abstract shape by giving it a pale, sun-touched morning fog to drift against.
Details
The painting is on canvas stretched over cradled plywood, stapled at the back. Finished edges with paint in similar colours to the image.
Signed: "MB/20", in black paint on lower right front.
Signed "M.B. Bowcott" on canvas stapled to the right stretcher bar, on verso.
Inscribed: "English Bay Crude "preceding the signature in graphite; and following the signature, "2020" in graphite, on canvas stapled to the right stretcher bar, on verso..
