Description
Sea and Silver Coast – three bands and no horizon
Wall art ribs three horizontal bands one beneath another, white-grey above, silver sand through the middle and deep blue below: decorative painting unusual in refusing the horizon its subject seems to promise.
Technique and texture
A blade laid the colour in long horizontal passes and then combed it through, so the ridges catch light and the troughs stay dark. The silver band uses a pigment that returns light instead of absorbing it, which is why its appearance changes with the angle you stand at. The blue band is the thickest, with the highest ridges and the deepest troughs.
The motif
The bands are not equal in width — the blue takes almost half the canvas and the silver is the narrowest — so the sequence reads as a crop rather than as a scheme. Their borders are not straight either: the combing interrupts them and colours run together inside individual ridges. Sea and shore are two textures stacked, nothing more.
Setting and placement
Cool and close to neutral, this one will not decide the colour of a room; it goes with grey, metal and glass and leaves the rest alone. The combing takes light from the side, so the picture is a different object in the morning than it is at dusk.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, long blade passes, combed ridges, light-returning silver pigment
- Palette: white-grey, silver, deep blue, cobalt
- Ideal for: living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms
- Character: cool, ordered, open
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Choosing Sea and Silver Coast
The first photograph shows Sea and Silver Coast face-on on an easel in an optional slim white-silver frame, and the second photograph views it from the side, where the combed ridges of the deep blue band catch the light. All three bands, the silver one in a light-returning pigment, are hand-painted with a blade, so this painting is not a print.
There are 14 landscape sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm. For roughly two thirds of the furniture’s width take 120 x 60 cm over a 200 cm sofa, 180 x 90 cm over a sofa of about 260 cm, 110 x 55 cm above a 160–180 cm bed and 80 x 40 cm in a long hallway. With YES under Stretcher the blue-and-silver canvas arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. The white-silver frame of Sea and Silver Coast is extra, chosen in the Frame menu from Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
Questions about Sea and Silver Coast
Which size of Sea and Silver Coast goes over a sofa?
120 x 60 cm over a 200 cm sofa, or 180 x 90 cm over one of about 260 cm, so the blue and silver bands span about two thirds of the width.
Why does the silver band of Sea and Silver Coast change?
Its silver pigment returns light, so the band looks different with the viewing angle and with side light.
Does Sea and Silver Coast include the white-silver frame from the photographs?
No, a frame around Sea and Silver Coast is optional, and the Frame menu is set to Without frame by default.
Can I order Sea and Silver Coast in another size?
Yes, we paint the white-grey, silver and deep blue bands to your measurements too, see paintings made to order.
