Lisa Milroy’s new series of sky paintings creates fresh possibilities for her exploration of stillness and movement, and expanding the parameters of still life. Her appreciation of blue stems from her birthplace and the distinctive coastal landscape of Vancouver where the mountains, sky and ocean embody three registers of the colour - as a solid, liquid and a manifestation of light and space. Ultramarine blue is a key colour in Milroy’s studio practice, the basis of all her greys and shadows, and used in every single painting she has made since the 1980s. This painting was made in her new studio at Lydd-on-Sea, UK.