Night Sailing at Vika

1996 Oil on Canvas
12″ x 16″ unframed
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We were spending the weekend with two friends in a cottage at Arnafjorden, and, after a very late dinner, the genial host proposed a boat tour of the neighboring shores. We had followed this little fjord, nameless save to the residents at its termination, where a pair of brothers tended their ancestral farms and sheer walls of rock imprisoned them on three sides. When we emerged, I was struck by the unearthly silence and the distinct planes of light and color which the midnight sun contrived.