Feast Fit for a Crab by Susan Clare

Susan Clare

Feast Fit for a Crab

Acrylic On Canvas

31 x 41 x 4 cm

Signature: symbol on front

£500

This little crab is enjoying a feast in the yellow seaweed of a rockpool. My impressionistic interpretation, in heavy body acrylics, focusses on blocky shapes, colour and pattern. The foregound is left almost abstract, which leads the eye up the picture plane, to the close-up view of the little crustacean. The colour scheme is kept minimal. Sunlight sparkles off the the crab's shiny, wet carapace, the weeds and the water.

I love to watch small marine invertebrates and found them to be some of the most fascinating and entertaining subjects, during my years as a scuba diving instructor. This image was painted (with kind permission) using a reference photo taken by Marie Antoniou.

July 2018, shortlisted for the RSMA Exhibition at the Mall Galleries

Framed in a soft white, natural finish, deep tray frame. Ready to hang.