Quiet Tide

Michael Reid Northern Beaches is embracing the season’s slower rhythms and channelling the salubrious calm of being by the sea with our forthcoming group exhibition Quiet Tide. Opening in two weeks and now available to preview by request, Quiet Tide brings together three luminaries of contemporary painting – Dalin Alejandrino, Ash Leslie and Nicole Steenhof – who each, in their distinct ways, wade through abstract painterly currents to articulate their emotional connection to water.

Eschewing more recognisable figurative cues in favour of feeling, these artists take fluid gestures, layered markings and tonal washes as a visual language to express the sensory pleasure of an ocean plunge, the elemental heft of breaking waves and the dreamy atmosphere of halcyon days adrift in a waterside idyll.

From Steenhof’s meditative odes to oceanic calm and Alejandrino’s feather-light abstractions of blissful moments abroad to Leslie’s softly charged studies of shoreline light and colour, each work in Quiet Tide reads as a painterly paean to water – its rhythms, its clarifying stillness and its endless power to slow us, restore us and draw us back to nature’s pace.

All works from Quiet Tide can be previewed and acquired by request in the lead-up to the show’s official opening on Thursday, 4 December. To request a preview catalogue, book a private viewing or secure an early acquisition, please email sophienolan@michaelreid.com.au