Paintings On Water is a collection of images that comes out of abstractions in nature photographed during Kerle’s water journeys. They have been described variously as meditative, emotional, inspirational and aesthetically beautiful in their abstraction.

‘Paintings on Water visually explores the interplay between the surface of the waters and the power of physical movement as creative inspiration. “I discovered on a very fundamental human level, the synthesis of these elements freed my mind from mental darkness whilst recharging the soul with the light of new thinking,” says Kerle.

Ralph Kerle began kayaking on Middle Harbour, Sydney Australia around eight years ago as a way of finding a non-pharmaceutical remedy for depression. His daily morning kayak suddenly opened up a world of new visual perceptions; offering boundless moments of insight whilst connecting him as closely to nature as the original Aboriginal inhabitants of Middle Harbour, the Cammeraygals.

International art critic Damien Smith has offered the following observation. “Ralph Kerle’s photographic impressions appear to us not only as reflections of nature. Rather they speak past the possibility of continuum, and not only of our place within the ceaseless flow of time, but also of our ability to be actors within the conditions of our existence and to shape our relationship with the world.”