Description
Visual Music – quiet blocks of grey and green
Painting on canvas mutes its palette into grey, greenish and mallow blocks that overlap like pasted sheets of paper: abstract painting closer to a colour texture than to a composition.
Technique and texture
The blocks are laid with the blade and then rubbed at their edges, so their borders are nowhere sharp. The colour is thin and matt throughout, with no sheen, which gives the surface the look of a plastered wall. In places the upper layer is scratched and uncovers a warmer ground.
The motif
The blocks are arranged in vertical columns that shift against one another and never align. The rhythm of the overlapping is uneven, so the eye travels the canvas as it would a score of notes of differing length. A darker grey rectangle stands upper right, and a warm sandy plane at the lower right is the only warm passage and gives the work its weight.
Setting and placement
The tones here are so restrained that this behaves mainly as surface. In a room with a great deal of pattern it supplies a calm plane that rests the eye.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, blade-laid blocks rubbed at the edges, thin matt colour, scratched passages showing a warmer ground
- Palette: grey, greenish grey, mallow, sand, brown
- Ideal for: living rooms, studies, waiting areas
- Character: muted, textural, calm
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Visual Music: upright sizes for calm rooms
Visual Music comes in 15 upright sizes, from 40 x 50 to 180 x 230 cm. A narrow study wall takes 45 x 60 or 50 x 70 cm, and beside a bookcase the grey-green blocks work at 65 x 90 cm. Over a 110 cm console choose 75 x 100 cm, roughly two thirds of its width, while 110 x 140 or 120 x 155 cm brings calm to a stairwell wall.
A frame for Visual Music is optional, and the Frame menu starts at “Without frame”. Pick YES under Stretcher and the canvas of grey, greenish and mallow blocks arrives stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. Delivery takes 15–45 days. The painting Visual Music is hand-painted with a blade in thin matt layers, so it is not a print.
Questions about Visual Music
Which size of Visual Music suits a 110 cm console?
For a 110 cm console take 75 x 100 cm, so the canvas of grey and mallow blocks covers about two thirds of its width.
Does Visual Music arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the canvas of quiet grey-green blocks comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I order Visual Music in a size that is not among the 15?
Yes, we paint the grey, greenish and sandy blocks as a painting made to order in your measurements.
Is Visual Music a print?
No, the blocks are laid with a blade and rubbed by hand at their edges, and the top layer is scratched in places.
