Ethel Carrick Fox
Let's move to the beach!
Ethel Carrick (later Ethel Carrick Fox) was an English Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. Much of her career was spent in France and in Australia, where she was associated with the movement known as the Heidelberg School.
When Carrick Fox held her solo exhibition in Sydney in July of 1913, the critic for the Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "The first characteristic observed on meeting [her] is a certain joyous vivacity, an air of pouncing upon the matter in hand and bearing it at once into a prominence of light and colour. The same qualities are reflected in her work. Painting after painting display an almost child-like love for light, movement, the interplay of brilliant hues." So true!
As in many of her beachside paintings, in On the Beach the red-and-white striped tents on golden sands, anchored by deep blacks, capture the eye and set up a vibrancy that echoes throughout the composition. Here, the engaging expression of belle époque elegance and pleasure in idle moments, entwines leisure and beauty within the sensuous play of light, texture, and color.
See you tomorrow!