Lizandro, Portugal by Eleanor Selwyn Lovett (1917-1994) captures with sweeping, wide strokes of brightly toned oil paint a coastline along a cliffside. The paint is built up where the waves crash along the shore, with chunks of paint visible against the canvas and gathering orange colour in the layers. Each paint stroke being visible and not blended suggests Lovett painted this piece quickly and through an active, sweeping motion or shorter, back and forth movements. The active nature of this piece from the paint strokes to the bright colours is suggestive of the influence of Expressionism in Lovett's work, creating an emotive nature to this piece. 

Eleanor Selwyn Lovett, 1917-1994