We have lived here on the island for 15 years and typically drive around on Hecksher Drive when going into Jax instead of taking the freeway. It is a beautiful and ever changing scene of the river, marsh, and industrial areas of NE Florida. There is a fuel tank farm just past the port that I have been interested in painting for years. The light on the tanks and pipelines reflects in so many varied ways depending on when you pass by the facility. There is no good place to stop and take photos but I have snapped some on the phone through the car windows while driving by over the years. This painting is a collage of the shapes and feeling of the "farm" from those images and my mental images just to experiment with a first attempt at capturing some of those on canvas.
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| Hecksher Drive 18 x 23 Oil on canvas panel |
