This series of oil paintings explore the abstract shape of whales as they emerge from the ocean. Without reference to scale, they question our imagination—morphing between creature and landmass—and then slip away without leaving a trace.
You Had Best Not Be Too Fastidious In Your Curiosity Touching This, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 28inAnd at His Breath Spouts Out a Sea, oil on panel, 15.5in x 28Physical Superfluousness, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 28in There is a Peculiar Emptiness About the Colour White, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 32 (sold)That in Her Retracing Search for Her Missing Children Only Found Another Orphan, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 32 (sold)Like an Earthquake Beneath, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 28inA Fearful Thing, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 28 (sold)Heads or Tails, oil on wood panel, 15.5in x 28 (sold)He is Seldom Seen, oil on two wood panels, 15.5in x 28in (sold)
Natasha van Netten 