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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 23.6x35.4in
About this artwork
July 2025 was particularly hot and dry. The countryside dried up, reservoirs began to run low and river water levels were down. Not far from where I live is a publicly accessible water meadow which is managed by allowing cattle to graze it. The waterway is visited every year by swifts and swallows that swoop down to water level to drink. The banks are quite rushy and as there are only a few cattle there are only a few places where they have worn…
them down sufficiently to be able to wade in.
I imagined these three thirsty cows coming down to drink in late afternoon, wading in up to their knees. I made them reflected in the water at their feet while a swift about to return to Africa flies past.
The interest to me lay in the light breaking through the foliage behind them and in the texture of the flowing water.
I imagined these three thirsty cows coming down to drink in late afternoon, wading in up to their knees. I made them reflected in the water at their feet while a swift about to return to Africa flies past.
The interest to me lay in the light breaking through the foliage behind them and in the texture of the flowing water.
Sinclair Webster
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Established Artist
- Prizewinner
- Solo shows participant
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« I'm largely self-taught, never having gone to art school. I learn by looking and doing. »
Sinclair Webster is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom whose paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions in England. Through his distinctive works, he explores themes relating to classical mythology, Christianity, animals, and what he refers to as charismatic moments, which capture humans or animals moving in "compositional coherence". Webster primarily creates with oils on canvas.