Californian Artist Paints Submerged Underwater Captured Shots

Californian artist Isabel Emrich loves to paint beautiful depictions of women submerged in water. Each colorful oil painting captures moments of peace below the water’s surface.

“My underwater collection is inspired by exploring the sensations of peacefulness and calmness, combined with the energy from the movement of the waves you feel when submerged,” Emrich says.

Emrich describes her work as “an Expressionistic style that straddles both abstraction and figuration.” Inspired by the work of Expressionism pioneers such as Van Gogh, her underwater paintings are full of abundance of energetic brush strokes in a vibrant color palette. These layers of paint echo the fluid nature of water itself, capturing the sparkling light and ripples that reflect from the surface and illuminate the model’s skin.

Emrich reveals, “Indeed, being in water is one of most explicit examples one can imagine of ‘being in the moment.’ Time stands still, and once and for all the past and future disappears. Zen-like, one is in the here and now.”

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Dreamer / 36×48 in / oil on canvas / 2019

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Curiosity / 40×30 inches / oil on canvas / 2019

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