Sea slug Nembrotha Purpureolineata is one of Bert’s very earliest paintings and was only painted after a friend of his had asked him to paint it.
Then when he had done it, he didn’t want it.
Dimensions: 51x61cm
Painted: 1999
Materials: Acrylic on canvas board
Private collection
The story behind Sea slug
I painted this for a friend, who subsequently didn’t want it. It’s a very early painting and was rather easy to do; it required some imagination in terms of enlarging the hard-cropped source image.
Source image of realism painting Sea slug Nembrotha Purpureolineata
