Description
Stories I – a turquoise plan seen from above
Painting on canvas maps white and turquoise into overlapping rectangles until the arrangement reads as an architectural plan seen from above — modern painting that stays just short of pure abstraction because one carved dark form anchors the lower left corner. Brown frames run between the fields like walls.
Technique and texture
The white mass is knife-laid in thick flat slabs that cast their own shadow, and it is the most sculptural part of the piece. The turquoise passages are the opposite: thin, translucent, brushed wide over a pale ground. Along the bottom edge the paint has been allowed to run in rivulets.
The motif
Rectangles of different sizes overlap without settling into a rhythm, so the grid never becomes a pattern. The brown frames behave like walls and the turquoise planes like the open ground between them. The carved dark form at the lower left is the only figurative element and it stops the whole thing dissolving.
Setting and placement
A pale palette sits easily on a white or sand wall and adds no weight to the room. The upright shape suits a hallway, a bedroom or a study, where the turquoise reads as a welcome cool note.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thick white knife-work, running rivulets
- Palette: white, turquoise, gold-brown, dark brown, grey
- Ideal for: hallways, bedrooms, home offices
- Character: bright, airy, contemporary
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Stories I for a hallway, stairwell or narrow wall
Stories I is painted in 13 portrait sizes, from 40 x 60 to 180 x 310 cm. The slim canvas with its turquoise plan belongs on narrow walls: between a door and a window 40 x 60 or 50 x 85 cm, above a 90 cm console or beside a bedside table 60 x 90 cm, and in a long hallway 50 x 85 cm. A tall stairwell wall, where the white slabs cast shadows in side light, takes 100 x 170 or 110 x 190 cm.
Pick YES under Stretcher and the canvas with its white rectangles arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame for Stories I is optional, as the Frame menu begins at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. With its thick knife-laid white and the rivulets along the bottom edge, Stories I is hand-painted, so it is not a print.
Questions about Stories I
Which size of Stories I suits a stairwell?
Beside the stairs take 100 x 170 or 110 x 190 cm, so the turquoise plan follows the climb.
Does Stories I arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the canvas with brown frames and turquoise fields comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Is Stories I a print?
No, the knife-laid white slabs cast a real shadow and the turquoise is brushed on by hand.
Can I order Stories I in a size outside the 13 listed?
Yes, we paint the white and turquoise plan as a painting made to order in your measurements.
