The open sea in perpetual motion, rendered entirely in fine engraved line. Wave after wave builds, crests and breaks across the entire surface — each one individually drawn, individually shaped, its white foam cap caught at the precise moment of maximum energy before the collapse. The line work is meticulous and hypnotic: thousands of parallel curves following the body of each wave, building volume and movement through accumulation alone, with no colour and no shading beyond the density and direction of the marks themselves.
The palette is steel blue and white — the blue of the open Atlantic on a clear winter day, of Japanese woodblock prints, of the sea as it appears in the imagination of those who have always lived near it and those who have always longed to. The white foam crests are the only interruption in the continuous blue field, and they are what give the composition its rhythm, its energy and its extraordinary sense of actual water moving at actual speed across an actual surface.
This design exists in a direct conversation with Hokusai and the great Japanese wave print tradition — not as imitation but as inheritance. The same understanding that the sea is not a backdrop but a subject; the same conviction that line, applied with patience and intelligence, can capture the movement of water more truly than any photograph. A wall that becomes a horizon, a room that opens onto the sea. Exceptional in bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, hallways and coastal interiors where the ocean is not merely a reference but a presence felt in every element of the space.
