Description
Message – jets of colour across a silver field
Wall art hurls carmine and cobalt across a silver-white ground and lets the jets land with their tails still showing, so the direction of the throw is legible in the paint — abstract painting whose subject is the gesture that made it. Islands of gold-ochre texture lie between the jets like fragments of a dug-up surface.
Technique and texture
The colour is thrown and dripped rather than brushed, and the trailing ends of each jet record the arc of the arm. The ground underneath is dragged with a wide knife in long horizontal passes of grey and white. The ochre patches are built up thick and granular, standing noticeably proud of everything around them.
The motif
There is no centre in the usual sense: a coiled concentric pattern at the right edge pulls the weight of the composition sideways. The red and blue jets run mostly on the diagonal from upper right toward the middle, which leads the eye against the direction of reading. Fine droplets are scattered over the whole surface and tie the separate zones together.
Setting and placement
This is a piece that wants to be the reason you look at the wall, so give it the wall and no neighbours. Concrete, steel and raw plaster are its natural company.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thrown and dripped colour, knife-dragged ground
- Palette: silver-white, grey, carmine, cobalt blue, gold-ochre
- Ideal for: living rooms, foyers, offices
- Character: dynamic, expressive, bold
Choose the size that suits your wall.
