Cabo Verde is the official name of the country, it used to be referred to as Cape Verde until they decided to go with the Portuguese spelling. Portuguese is the official language there owing to its history as a territory of Portugal dating back to the colonial times. It was mainly used as a shipping stop-over in the mid Atlantic ocean, slave ships would stop there to resupply. With those dark days in the past, Cabo Verde turned to fishing for its economic growth, and an increasing reliance on tourism. The country is a collection of volcanic islands. One of the main ones is supposed to resemble the face of a person, looking up into the sky. In the painting, I tried to capture the geological cycle of land formation, with a prominent volcano spewing lava onto the beach, juxtaposed against the turquoise and emerald-coloured ocean. An elliptical horizon was composed in the background to convey the vastness and sense isolation of this far-off land.
World Inspired Landscapes: Cabo Verde, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, December 2021 (No. 2958b)
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