Painting Hypnosis — Translating Almaza Bay, Alexandria Into Canvas

Q (expanded from Lee’s fourth question): Can you talk us through the creation of Hypnosis and the inspirations behind it?

Hypnosis was born from my memories of Almaza Bay in Alexandria, one of the most beautiful underwater landscapes I’ve ever experienced. The clarity of the turquoise water, the sunlight rippling across sand, the feeling of being both weightless and energized—it stayed with me. I wanted to translate that sensation onto canvas.

I began by layering ultramarine, gradually adding hints of yellow until the colour shifted toward a crystalline white—mimicking how light fractures on water’s surface. For the vanishing point, I used deep blue at the centre to pull the viewer inward, into the ocean’s embrace. The turquoise transitions, carefully mixed by hand rather than straight from a tube, captured the way shallow water drifts toward shore.

The process was meditative. Each layer was both a technical experiment in colour blending and a personal act of remembrance. Through Hypnosis, I wasn’t just painting the sea—I was recreating the feeling of being immersed in its rhythm, calm yet alive with light.

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