Angela Rimmer

I'm a Devon-based abstract painter working with acrylic, coffee, ink and restrained gold leaf.

My practice is rooted in a deep connection to the natural world. It is concerned with thresholds - moments of liminal transition where perception slows and the image gives way to experience. I'm interested in the conditions we move through and in-between states of arrival, pause and disorientation.

Materials play an active role. Acrylic provides structure, texture and containment; coffee and ink introduce seepage, time, and unpredictability. Gold leaf appears sparingly as a marker of light and passage - a point where something shifts.

My paintings unfold slowly and are intended to be savoured - shaped by light, proximity and time. The viewer is held within the surface, encountering the painting as a place rather than an image.

A luminous horizon dissolves into atmosphere as light spills across an abstract seascape, where sky and water seem to breathe into one another. The upper half glows with layered washes of warm gold, ochre, and muted peach, suggesting a sun veiled behind mist or memory rather than clouds. Below, the ocean unfolds in slow, rolling movements — deep teal, indigo, and storm-soft grey drifting together in translucent veils and textured sweeps.

 

The brushwork carries a sense of motion without urgency. Soft arcs and horizontal currents guide the eye across the canvas like tides moving under moonlight, while delicate highlights of pale turquoise and white catch like foam or reflected light. There is no fixed shoreline, no defined wave — only the sensation of water in transition, suspended between calm and unrest.

 

The painting evokes a state rather than a place: a quiet threshold where turbulence softens into stillness, and where depth exists not in distance, but in feeling. It is both atmospheric and internal — a landscape of weather and of mood, held gently in balance.

Acrylic on Canvas

39x48cm

Framed in an open frame