Description
Zala – white strokes on a bright field
Painting on canvas sweeps broad white and cream strokes across the whole surface and presses a nest of strong colour into the left third — abstract painting in the plainest sense, because nothing here resolves into a thing.
Technique and texture
The white strokes were laid with a very wide blade and have a smooth, almost polished face. The colour nest is their opposite — paint is heaped there in lumps that stand off the canvas and chip away at the edges. Between the two zones there is no drawn border, only the place where the white stops opening.
The motif
The composition is deliberately unbalanced: the weight is all in the left third and the other two thirds breathe. Red, dark blue, green and yellow overlap inside the nest while the surface elsewhere stays nearly empty. A few thin blue and brown traces run across the bright part like corrections, and the empty space counts as much as the colour rather than serving as a background.
Setting and placement
A pale, nearly white base will brighten a darker corner without any added lighting, which is a practical reason to choose it over a stronger picture. The square crop asks for a place of its own, with no other work beside it.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, wide-blade polished white strokes, heaped chipping colour nest, no drawn border between the zones
- Palette: white, cream, red, dark blue, green, yellow
- Ideal for: living rooms, studies, darker corners
- Character: open, gestural, unbalanced
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Zala on a wall of its own: sofa, bed or darker corner
Zala comes in 15 square sizes, from 40 x 40 to 200 x 200 cm. Let the white field with its colour nest in the left third cover about two thirds of the furniture width: over a 200 cm sofa 130 x 130 or 140 x 140 cm, above a bed 160–180 cm wide 110 x 110 or 120 x 120 cm, over a 150 cm sideboard 100 x 100 cm, while 60 x 60 or 70 x 70 cm brightens a darker hallway corner. For a 300 cm corner sofa there is also 200 x 200 cm.
Choose YES under Stretcher and the white and cream canvas arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame for Zala is optional, as the Frame menu starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. The smooth wide-blade whites and the heaped lumps of red and blue are worked by hand, so Zala is hand-painted and not a print.
Questions about Zala
Which size of Zala suits a very long corner sofa?
For a corner sofa around 300 cm long take 200 x 200 cm, so the colour nest and the white fill the wall.
Does Zala arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the canvas of white strokes comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Is Zala a print?
No, the colour lumps in the left third stand off the canvas and chip at the edges, which no print can do.
Can I order Zala in a size outside the 15 listed?
Yes, we paint the white field with its colour nest as a painting made to order in your measurements.
