Skip to main content
Skip to main content
Collections Menu
Oak Bay Turbulence
Oak Bay Turbulence
Oak Bay Turbulence

Oak Bay Turbulence

Artist Stephen Yates
MediumAcrylic, paper
Dimensions20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineSeattle Public Utilities 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
This painting suggests the movement of water spilling over and onto rocks.  The darker gestural shapes might be sticks or creatures caught in the swirl.  There is a suggestion of small fish moving against the flow.  I wanted the imagery to be an abstracted reference to nature and to create a sense of motion through the brush-marks.  The imagery seems to refer to water even with the atypical yellow-gold colors.
Summer Supplement #6
Stephen McClelland
1975
Via Bassanno #3
Stephen McClelland
1981
Untitled (Bather)
Carolyn Stephens
1981
Tranquility of Paradise
Stephen Rock
1988
Salt Flats #6, 1981
Stephen McClelland
1981
Faxa Bay Three
Liz Tran
2014
Domestic Turbulence
Tom McClelland
1997
Forest People
Stephen Dale Edwards
1982