Aerial Beach 01 by Gethyn Davies

Aerial Beach 01 is a striking contemporary artwork by British painter and animator Gethyn Davies, masterfully created using acrylic on paper with a specialized heavy texture technique. Deeply influenced by the artist’s extensive background in animation and art direction for television, this piece captures a lively shoreline through a captivating bird’s-eye (aerial) perspective. The vibrant composition delivers a high-contrast experience, beautifully merging the warm beige and reddish-brown tones of the sand with the ocean’s vibrant turquoise, sky blue, and deep navy gradients, while the geometric alignment of signature orange umbrellas and their sharp shadows injects a playful visual rhythm. The defining feature of the artwork lies in its heavy application of gesso and texture pastes, which builds a rich, sculptural, and tactile surface that brings the physical relief of rolling white sea foam, rushing waves, and coastal sand to life.