The AMA Quartet - four paintings in reaction to the underwater Dance by Julie Gautier.

I came across the beautiful and mesmerising underwater Dance of Julie Gautier, called AMA, one day, and was transfixed by its grace and lyricism. The ability to dance in three dimensions and weightless, enabled a completely new approach to dance, which is utterly free and therefore ultra expressive. Julie Gautier’s style of dance, on the other hand, has a quiet depth and spirituality, unlike some other inferior attempts at Dance underwater, which are flashy and melodramatic. Julie, who is also a Deep sea diver like her father  - her mother was a Dancer - combines the two specialities, delivering a unique and breathtaking experience. I just had to try to paint my own deep reactions to it here, in four these four paintings.