New oil painting dripping in gold: inspiration and meaning behind 'Looking Glass World'
Inspiration and Meaning behind the Painting
Materials Used, Size of Artwork and Painting Technique
Art Buyers and Collectors: How To Buy This Artwork?
Shipping and Packaging
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Inspiration and Meaning behind the Painting
The Fenlands of Britain exist in an imaginary space, out of time and out of step with an increasingly homogenised and utilitarian world.
They are made up of woodlands, wet grasslands, marsh, bogs, meadows and shallow ponds – teeming with life. There is a constant visual interplay between grasses, reeds and water, between bramble, branches and sky. Slow-moving rivers, lodes and streams are seen through a tracery of golden arches and erratic parabola. A rhythmic dance of crescent-like shapes weaves an intricate latticework against the deep blue skies. As Winter ends, a collective movement towards the light signals a regeneration, a new-found optimism a barely concealed delight.
Materials Used, Size of Artwork and Painting Technique
This is an oil painting with cold wax medium and assorted enamels, dyes and pigments. The first layers of translucent colour are applied with a brayer and allowed to dry. Subsequent layers are finely textured with crumpled cellophane from the canvas packaging - recycling at its best.
Gold enamel is trailed, poured, printed and spattered onto the surface, accompanied by a Jackson Pollock tribute dance. The viscosity is adjusted, changing the rate of flow. Within the constraints of gravity, reassigned kitchen utensils offer alternative trajectories; knives, forks and spoons, dripping in gold, recreate the illusion of falling.
It has been said many times before that of all the arts, painting is ultimately about time. You could say that painting is a representation of time frozen, arrested and fixed. Paintings (kinetic art excepted) don't move or change, to any noticeable degree. But you could just as easily say a painting is not static, you could argue that it embodies time; in the accumulation of events, in the patient building of surfaces, in the endless adjustments, modifications and corrections; in the life experiences and intentions of the artist, in the weeks and months of creation, in the judgements and decisions, ideas and influences.
The final painting is a point chosen by the artist, when he or she decides it is complete, knowing that it is never really complete or final. In our looking glass worlds, we bring our history, perception, ideas, knowledge and preconceptions. Everything is seen through the prism of experience.
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Art Buyers and Collectors: How To Buy This Artwork?
If you like this artwork or have seen others that you like, you can email my Art Representative, Karl, at The Darryl Nantais Gallery Ltd on karl@linton59.co.uk or get in contact via the contact form on his website https://linton59.co.uk/contact. Please add the name/title of the artwork in your message. It may have already sold, but if that is the case, don't worry, you can request a commissioned piece and get a painting you will love.
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Shipping and Packaging
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About Artist
I am a UK based abstract landscape painter/artist with a range of compelling and popular original mixed media paintings available to buy. You can follow my artistic practices, latest artworks and painting techniques and news by reading my contemporary art blog.
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Shipping
I ship paintings worldwide, and they are professionally and securely packaged for National and International courier services. They are delivered to your home in a reinforced box within 3-5 days of your order. You can buy my art online and order a painting or request a commissioned piece by contacting me directly using the contact form.
Framing
Each artwork will arrive unframed with painted edges, ready for you to hang. If you wish to frame a painting, you can make a direct request at an extra cost or contact your local framing shop.
Previous Exhibitions
I am a British artist based in Ely, Cambridgeshire and my work is sought by collectors here in the UK and worldwide. I have exhibited recently at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair, The Babylon Gallery in Ely, The Art in East Anglia Gallery, in Bury St Edmunds, The Darryl Nantais Gallery in Linton, The Michael House Centre and The Locker cafe in Cambridge. I also have collections of my artwork in prestigious office settings in major towns and cities throughout the country.
Materials Used
I work in mixed media, oil, cold wax, acrylic, bitumen and on both medium and large-scale canvases. My techniques involve a range of techniques and processes including, drawing, painting, collage, printing and mixed media applications. My main subject matter is landscape and abstraction and many of my paintings are located somewhere between figurative and non-figurative approaches to image-making.
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