Description
Darkness with Gold – three layers and a golden edge of light
Three stacked horizontal layers: the upper forty-five percent is a smooth olive-grey field with soft knife traces, followed by a cracked silver-white band with black web-like veins, and the bottom is closed by a heavy, almost black layer.
Technique & Texture
The white band is a fragile, cracked crust, the olive field soft and warm, the black base dense and flat. This is a hand-painted painting on canvas – the cracks in the white band are real, formed as a thick layer dried.
The Motif
A gold-ochre ridge runs exactly along the upper edge of the white band, on the border between the olive field and the white – like a last light on a horizon. The golden mounds are heaviest right of centre and at the right edge; above the black base there is no gold, so the darkness remains darkness.
Styling & Placement
Dramatic yet calm wall art on canvas for living rooms, dining rooms and offices with darker furnishings; the golden edge catches the evening light, and the black base grounds any wall.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, cracked crust, golden ridge
- Palette: olive grey, silver white, gold ochre, almost black
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms, offices
- Character: dramatic, earthy, restrained
Darkness with Gold: sizing to your furniture
Darkness with Gold is offered in 16 landscape sizes, from 50 x 40 to 260 x 170 cm. Over a 200 cm sofa choose 140 x 93 cm, since that width fills about two thirds of the sofa. Above a 160–180 cm bed or a dining table this painting works at 120 x 90 cm, and a long hallway takes 160 x 105 cm.
The first photograph shows Darkness with Gold at an angle on a studio easel, its three layers running from olive to black, and the second photograph is a close-up of the gold ridge above the cracked white crust. Choose YES under Stretcher and Darkness with Gold arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. Darkness with Gold comes without a frame unless you add one in the Frame menu, which starts at “Without frame”. Delivery takes 15–45 days. Darkness with Gold is hand-painted, its cracks formed as thick paint dried, so it is not a print.
Questions about Darkness with Gold
Which size of Darkness with Gold suits the wall above a bed?
For a bed 160–180 cm wide, 120 x 90 cm is right, and for a narrower bed 100 x 75 cm.
Does Darkness with Gold arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the olive field, white band and black base come stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Is Darkness with Gold a print?
No, the gold ridge is applied by hand, and the cracks in the white crust formed as the thick paint dried.
Can I order Darkness with Gold in a size that is not among the 16?
Yes, we paint the three layers and the gold edge as a painting made to order.
