John Speirs - Conversations With The Sea

JOHN SPEIRS Conversations With The Sea

..Paint, Paint, Paint! Irma Stern (1894-1966)

…under the sea In an octopus’ garden in the shade The Beatles Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

.In the shadow of the sea, which goes on writing John Ashbery (b1929) Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

A wind came up out of the sea And said “ O mists, make room for me” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1809-1882) Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

Rocks crumble, make new forms Oceans move the continents Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

..heaven and earth and sea and hurricane Walt Whitman 1819-1892 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

A stormy sea driven About by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven Martin Luther (1483-1546) Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Now beacon, now sea Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

If love is shelter I’m going to walk in the rain.

Irish Anon Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Thanks to the morning light Thanks to the foaming sea Robert Aldo Emerson (1803-1882) Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

…and then there is the peril of waters, winds and rocks William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

But as of foam after the ocean’s wrath Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Just walk the cliffs of Cornwall Stunning views and seas so blue Don Pengilly Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

You trail across the rocks And wash them with your salt Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Where the broad ocean leans against the land Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

The breaking waves dashed high on a rock-bound coast Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783-1835) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

And all is quiet by the cliffs of the sea Frances Duggan, Modern Australian Poet Oil ob board, 40 x 50 cm

Carved by watery hammers over time Laurence E. Bourke, Modern Irish poet Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

In the grey of twilight by the cliffs of the sea Francis Duggan, Modern Australian Poet Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Steep slabs, rugged hearts of olden things Laurence Bourke, Modern Irish poet Oil on board, 50 x 40 cm

Where no storm comes Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Break retreat get fresh strength Gather and pour weight upon the beach Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Here is no water but only rock T.S.Eliot (1888-1965) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

…swift, swift it foamed, Black under cliffs it raced, round headlands shone.

Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

On these white cliffs that calm above the flood William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

While I may paint in the tints or outlines of rocks and beaches Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Sound of water over rock T.S.Eliot (1888-1965) Oil on board, 40 x 30 cm

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783 -1835) Oil on board, 30 x 40 cm

‌chiselled like rocks That are eaten into by the sea Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) Oil on board, 30 x 40 cm

In every crest some undulating light and shade Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Oil on board, 30 x 40 cm

‌dance Like a wave of the sea.

William Butler Yeats (1865-19390 Oil on board, 30 x 40 cm

And the waves sing..

Philip Larkin (1922-1986) Oil on board, 40 x 30 cm

…amid the glittering sea William Butler Yeats (1865-19390 Oil on board, 40 x 30 cm

Nine times folded in mystery Robert Aldo Emerson (1803-1882) Oil on board, 40 x 30 cm

All in the solitudinous sea Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) Oil on board, 30 x 20 cm

Motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind Titus Livius (59BC-AD17) Oil on board, 30 x 20 cm

The world below the brine Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Oil on board, 30 x 20 cm

Stubborn, strong willed, won’t conform Sam Price, Modern British Poet Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm

The tongues of water, creeping in, quietly Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm

A slight relax of air where cold was and water tickles Philip Larkin (1922-1986) Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm