Pool

This painting is available from Beside the Wave.

"Sarah Wimperis captures the languid glamour of Mediterranean summer — the shimmer of pool water, the quiet geometry of tiled terraces, and the delicate blush of pink parasols glowing against the sun-warmed wall. The scene is both inviting and contemplative: a place where time slows to the rhythm of heat and shadow.

Wimperis’s palette sings with the saturated clarity of sunlight, recalling the Fauvist brilliance of Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy, while her expressive handling of colour and light bears echoes of David Hockney’s Californian pools. The fluid brushwork, alive with movement and reflection, hints at the lyricism of Pierre Bonnard and the structure of Edward Hopper’s sunlit spaces — painters who, like Wimperis, found poetry in the stillness of the everyday.

There is a balance here between exuberance and calm: the pink parasols cast playful shadows while the deep blue pool holds a serene intensity. Through confident composition and sensuous colour, Wimperis transforms an ordinary poolside moment into a luminous meditation on light, leisure, and human presence implied but unseen. Pink Sunshades celebrates both the painter’s delight in place and the timeless dialogue between sun, surface, and solitude."