Swim Sisters

Acrylics on canvas, a celebration of winter sea swimming…that feeling of exhilaration when you get out of the sea on a winter’s morning alive and giggling.

30x20inches on stretched canvas

Nude, life-drawing in mixed media on red paper

by Marie-Therese Davis

Well, I do swim a lot these days so eye-catching swimming caps are bound to attract my attention! Nothing quite like a swimmer surfacing unexpectedly in front of you in the middle of a lake or in the sea to make you jump.

Mixed media on stretched canvas

Dimensions 12x16 inches

Price £350

Watercolour on card 15cm x15cm

Lester is a local seal (or one of many local seals who pop up beside us when we swim in Belfast Lough.

Acrylics on stretched canvas 2018/19 (30x20inches)

Price £375

We swim in the Irish Sea on a daily basis ( sea conditions permitting) and are privileged to share it with the local wildlife. The seals pop up beside us as we swim as if to say “What’s going on and what are you doing?” So far, they’ve kept their distance and they follow at a safe distance.

Lester here was captured eating a fish and basking in the sun shine.

Acrylic on stretched canvas

While travelling around France with my family and doing a lot of outdoor and wild swimming, I had a visit from this beautiful gull when I was sitting on the sea wall in St Valerie-en-Caux.

Acrylics on stretched canvas.

Dimensions: 3x16inches rectangular stretched on a wooden stretcher.

Works as a sculptural piece which can sit independently on a flat surface or as a painting hung on your wall.

£225 (purchase directly from ArtisAnn Gallery www.artisann.org )

Seal resting on the rocks. We all know that feeling when you just want a little bit of peace and quiet then someone comes along just as you’re getting comfortable!

I saw this seal photo as posted by one of my kayaking buddies (I don’t kayak just swim!) and made me smile. You can imagine what the seal is thinking…What? No fish? Then clear off and leave me alone!

Acrylic on stretched canvas

Dimensions: 3x16 inches

Works as a sculptural piece or hung on a wall

Painted chariot for musical theatre production of Joseph and Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat

Celebrities at last!

Oils on canvas 1992

Draw without lifting your pen challenge. A pair of silk shoes from the Sir John Newell Jordan collection, North Down Museum.

Watercolours on paper A5 size

Acrylics on canvas 2018

Swimmer from below. Watercolour on card 15cm x 15cm

Watercolour on card. 15cm x15cm

Watercolour on card 15cm x 15cm.

Watercolour on card. 15cm x15cm.

Watercolour on card. 15cm x 15cm

I took part in a year long project celebrating our ethnic communities in Northern Ireland and interpreting the Sir Newell Jordan Collection recently bequeathed to North Down Museum. We had the opportunity to hold artefacts belonging to the Collection, photograph them using photogrammetry, create 3D prints of objects, use new design programs, create tote bags using heat transfer processes, laser cut wood, paint, draw, print and generally explore “forbidden” objects. So enlightening and fun too!

Digital art print.

A3 size

Digital artwork 2019.

A sketch in turquoise pen and ink. (My scanner needs up-dating!)

£50

A male and female sea swimmer setting out for their daily swim.

Acrylics on stretched canvas

£345

A tongue in cheek sketch of a moment on the beach in France.

Pen and ink on paper then hand coloured with watercolours.

A5 size (private collection)

On those dark winter mornings when we swim in the darkness before dawn, your clothes have a nasty habit of disappearing when you are freezing cold, your hands are on a go-slow and desperately trying to find them within 10 minutes of exiting the Irish Sea! When searching for dark coloured clothing by the feeble light of a head torch, you quickly learn who your friends are.

Pens and ink on paper.

Original hand drawn cartoon

Dimensions: 6x6 cms

Price: £75