I would recommend: Water
Welcome to August.
Water, we love it.
Currently, I just like jumping in it.
Lately, I’ve noticed how often I find myself recommending artwork that features water. Sometimes it’s obvious—a shoreline, a lake, an ocean horizon. Other times it’s much harder to pinpoint. It’s simply a feeling. Softness. Movement. Reflection. Discovery.
We’re often drawn to blue as a colour, but I wonder if it’s really blue we’re after. Maybe it’s what water offers us instead.
Sometimes it’s very direct. People want a reminder of a favourite place—the lake they return to every summer, the ocean from a memorable trip, the quiet comfort of a horizon line. Other times, it’s much less literal. It’s flow. Release. Power. Water is constantly changing, and artists have spent centuries trying to capture it: every shifting colour, every reflection, every ripple, every moment where light transforms its surface.
Maybe that’s why I keep returning to it. It never looks the same twice. Every artist finds something different in water, and every viewer does too. Historically, it often represented exploration and prosperity; today, it just as easily speaks to ecology, identity, memory or introspection.
So, rather than assigning meaning, I’ll simply leave a few artists here for you to discover. After all, what would I Would Recommend be without a few new bookmarks?
