Description
Still Waters Run Deep
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
55 × 70 cm
R6 800
Still Waters Run Deep looks out across a quiet stretch of water framed by tall, slender trees. Their trunks rise in cool blue-grey, and their branches are scattered with dabs of leaf colour — green, gold, teal and coral — that open the view rather than close it. Between them a calm, silver-blue lake stretches back to soft distant hills, while a band of wild grasses and flowers crowds the foreground in lively flecks of red, orange, pink and yellow.
The painting balances stillness and energy with real assurance. The water and sky are handled in smooth, luminous washes of pale blue and warm peach, while the foliage and flowers are built from confident, loaded touches of the brush. This contrast — serene distance against a dancing, colourful foreground — gives the work its depth and its gentle sense of movement, echoing the expressive, colour-led approach that runs through Julie Tugwell’s landscapes.
At 55 × 70 cm it is an easy, welcoming size to live with. Portrait in format, Still Waters Run Deep brings a sense of calm and open space to a room, and its soft peach and blue palette settles happily into both restful, neutral interiors and more layered, decorative schemes.
Specifications
- Title: Still Waters Run Deep
- Artist: Julie Tugwell
- Medium: Acrylic
- Support: Stretched canvas
- Dimensions: 55 × 70 cm
- Orientation: Portrait
- Availability: Available
- Original artwork: Yes — a one-of-one, hand-painted original
Key Features
- Original artwork — one of one
- Hand painted in acrylic on stretched canvas
- Expressive, colour-led waterside landscape
- Calming, balanced composition
- Ready to hang
Ideal Setting
A calming, uplifting piece for a living room, bedroom, study or entrance hall. Its restful palette suits contemporary homes and apartments, guest bedrooms in boutique hotels and lodges, and quiet reception or consulting rooms where a sense of space and ease is welcome.
Style
Julie Tugwell is a contemporary South African artist whose work shares qualities with expressive, painterly traditions, favouring energetic brushwork and an emotional response to her subject over strict realism. In her landscapes she reads a scene through colour and light, letting warm and cool tones play against one another and building foreground detail with confident, loaded strokes. She captures the atmosphere and mood of a place rather than a literal likeness, creating original artworks that bring warmth, character and considered sophistication to contemporary interiors.
At a Glance
- Artist: Julie Tugwell, contemporary South African artist
- Artwork: Still Waters Run Deep
- Medium: Original acrylic on stretched canvas
- Dimensions: 55 × 70 cm, portrait
- Subject: Waterside landscape — a calm lake seen through trees with a wildflower foreground
- Style: Expressive, colour-led contemporary landscape
- Palette: Soft peach, silver-blue, green and coral
- Ideal setting: Contemporary homes, apartments, boutique hotels and calm reception spaces
- Status: Original, one-of-one, available
Please note: Images are provided as a guide to the artwork’s size and style. As each original painting is photographed under different lighting conditions and viewed on different screens, colours may vary slightly from the original artwork.
