Mitch Davis-Mann

Reaching, Oil Painting

2019

Artist Comments
"The use of a black sky helps create the illusion of glowing water like that found in the Bio Bay of Puerto Rico," shares artist Mitch Davis-Mann. "Quickly applied brushstrokes and scraping from a palette knife allowed me to paint realistic waves from pure imagination."

About the Artist
Artist Mitch Davis-Mann creates luminous, dream-like seascapes and landscapes. Amazingly, he paints many of his meditative scenes while also working on an assembly line at one of the biggest automotive manufacturing plants. "We build 500 to 650 cars per day per shift, and in between building those cars I have 35 or so seconds," says Mitch. "Build one car, run over, add a detail with those 35 seconds, then rush back to the next car." On a typical workday, Mitch spends almost five hours in front of the canvas. In the beginning, he says it was a frustrating process, where he would lose his place constantly and by the time he remembered what he was working on, the next car would arrive. It eventually became a rhythm though, and now it keeps him focused in the factory. When he's not working, Mitch enjoys traveling, mountain biking and playing in a darts league every Thursday. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Canada and the United States, a local museum show, and on loan to the legislative assembly building in Toronto.

Words that describe this painting: waves, ocean, seascape, water, seaspray, night, coast, shore, seascape, realism, representational, oil painting, black

Reaching
Mitch Davis-Mann
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2019
16 in. h x 20 in. w x .75 in. d
0 lbs. 13 oz.