Sara Klug
Standing By

When first placed with the idea of an island through a woman’s eyes I immediately wanted to express how I felt about living on an island and in a community like Tasmania. As a young woman looking towards her future sometimes Tasmania can leave me feeling stifled and cut off from the main world. The woman in my painting is a representation of young women, looking forward to her future and what it will hold. She is alone on a beach, calm and still despite the stirring water behind her; isolated and singular from the surrounding movement.

The colouring chosen is intended to invoke the feeling of a chill; the salt spray splashing on cold cheeks as you walk along a coastline. Pale light veils her face and her hair hangs still as though she is in the eye of a storm; every fibre of her being unaffected by the weather. The only object of real warmth in the painting is the deep purple shade of her jumper linking her back and giving realism to her situation.