Description
Helen CHRISTOPHIDIS
Victoria
‘Between the Cliffs & the Open Ocean’ 2025
oil on linen
107 x 72cm
I embrace a sense of timelessness, here on the Flinders back-beach. My imagination is set free, searching and exploring treasures of seaweed and shells deposited by the tide, here between the cliffs and the open ocean. There is connection as I fall in step with the natural rhythm of changing wind and light on and in water. Over the years this has been inspiration for my work. After swimming on a hot summer’s day in February this year, the idea for this painting developed. I sat in the shade, with the temperature an unusual 40 degrees. Around me smooth, weathered rocks stood proud like sentinels, risen from the ocean, not forms eroded over time. The afternoon stillness abruptly shifted. Strong wind and rain dissolved and blurred my view. Turbulence changing colour and light. This painting is my memory of that afternoon, where I lingered on the rocks between the cliffs and the ocean, with a sense of resilience and protection; an awareness of all who have sought refuge here.
