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Picture Every Drop Counts, Alice Gorton, Painting

Every Drop Counts

Mixed Media on Canvas
150 x 100 cm
​2017
​SOLD
I created this piece as a response to the brief given by the UN Waterboard. We wanted to promote World Water Day which is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. 
Initially I was considering how I use water, particularly in my garden as its where I go back to the elements and feel more connected to the planet, however given the enormity of the subject I decided it was more important to communicate this topic in a universal way, so I stripped it back to a single droplet suspended above a surface of rippling water. To make the importance of that water felt I wanted to create a large-scale piece that imposed the image onto the viewer and gave the water magnitude. I created depth with liquid layers of ink and oil to enhance the viscosity of the painting and by including the patterns of light glancing over the surface. The colours I used are highly saturated, again this is to give the water additional significance; richness of colour in painting has long been associated with rank and value. Overall, I want this piece to make people stop and consider, to get lost in the water and remember the substance and worth it has.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Exhibtions
    • Current Exhibtions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Photos of Exhibitions
  • Rural Series
    • April
    • Peony Explosion
    • Patchwork
    • Avon
    • Embankment
    • Bluebells 2
    • Bluebells
    • Ginkgo Striation
    • Ginkgo
    • Ginkgo Leaf
    • Ginkgo Square
    • Gingko 2
    • Ginkgo Gold
    • Rumble 2
    • Rumble
    • Metamorphosis
    • Lush
    • A New Year
    • The Thicket
    • The Last Lily
    • Cherry Blossom
    • Larch 3
    • Larch 2
    • Larch
    • Night Fall
    • Lanterns
    • Secret Garden
  • Travel Series
    • Aberystwyth Rocks
    • Welsh Mountains
    • Edinburgh Skies
    • Torrent
    • Waterfall
    • It's Pronounced Foy
    • Malta
    • Cyprus
    • Bali
    • Everyone Still Calls It Saigon
    • Llandudno
    • The Bridge, NC
    • Oslo
    • Brighton
    • Edinburgh
    • VIA
    • Gambia Thunderstorm
  • Smoke Series
    • Pollen
    • Swoop
    • Crystal Smoke
    • Breath
    • At This Point In Time
    • Smoke Above
    • Steel Tempering
    • Smoke & Embers
    • Smoke
    • Fire & Smoke
    • Fire & Smoke 2
    • Fire & Smoke 3
    • Fire & Smoke 4
  • Commissions
    • Boundless
    • Every Drop Counts
    • Edvin Loach Church
    • Durham
    • The Barbican
    • Some Corner
  • City Lights Series
    • Finite
    • Strobe
    • Drift
    • Nocturnal
    • Lightwave
    • Oil Slick
    • Reflection
    • Viridescent
    • Sparked
    • Arc
    • Flare
    • Glare
    • The Gloaming
  • Contact Info.
  • Urban Series
    • M6
    • Sodium
    • Neon
    • Fluoresce
  • Rural Series 2
    • Dappled
    • Tulip Memories
    • 3 Day Summer
    • Flourish
    • Submerged
    • Scoured
    • Sugars
    • Norfolk
    • Flush
    • Coronation Wood
    • Verglas
    • Niveous
    • Canopy
    • Blackberries