The Unfolding

 
 

The Unfolding

This canvas is on its third or fourth life.  Stretched in 2015 as a sabbatical project to reflect my work connecting people in communities by way of art, it started life portrait view with landscapes and people.  It didn’t sing to me.  I painted it out and kept it portrait two more times.  Still no life.  I turned it landscape and there it was. It spoke to me of layers of identity, of revealing slowly in small ways, of the tension in revelation and the colour of energetic search balanced by cool resting at times.  Light rays and small explosions appear behind the deepest layers on the left and on the right. The revelation is so powerful on the left that the canvas itself is torn and fixed back, no way of closing in again.  Unfolding to one’s deeper self is a many layered and time-consuming thing.  Here is a way of resting in that truth.

oil on stitched and stretched canvases

2022

77 x 61cm

Original painting £2700

 
 
 

Please contact me if you would like prints. The following formats are available. All prints on paper are sold on ivory mounting board. Frames may be ordered. Prints on canvas are stretched on wood.

Art Prints: Art Prints are created with laser printers onto quality wood pulp art paper.

Gallery Poster: Gallery Poster is a typical art gallery format with laser printer on poster paper, supplied rolled in a tube.

Giclee Prints: Giclee Prints are inkjet sprayed onto quality cotton rag paper. They’re known for their vibrant colours, fine details, and archival quality. The term "giclee" comes from the French word meaning "to spray," referring to the precise inkjet spraying process used in their production. They’re guaranteed to last at least 100 years (though no one’s been alive long enough since development to know…)

Embellished Giclee Prints: Embellished Giclee Prints are customised by me adding details, textures, or hand-drawn elements to make each cotton paper print unique. The result is a print that combines the advantages of digital printing with a personal touch.

Giclee Prints on Canvas: Giclee Prints are inkjet sprayed onto artist canvas material. This gives the print a texture and appearance similar to a traditional painting on canvas so that they resemble original paintings.

Embellished Giclee Prints on Canvas: Embellished Giclee Prints on Canvas are customised by me adding details, textures, or hand-painted elements to make each print unique. Embellishments added on top of canvas give the print a more three-dimensional painterly effect.