Description
Time on the Wall – a cream wall over a black band
Abstract painting renders almost the whole canvas as a smoothed cream and ivory plane and closes it along the lower edge with a narrow black band: painting on canvas built on a deliberately extreme proportion.
Technique and texture
The bright plane is built from several coats of dense plaster scratched back with a narrow tool once it had dried. The scores are shallow and irregular, so light breaks in them differently than it does on the smooth passages. The black band went on last and is the only place with a wet, flowing load.
The motif
The proportion is deliberate: the bright field takes four fifths of the canvas and the dark band one. Thin vertical scores run down across the light field from the top edge to the middle. Inside the dark strip, pale marks and brief trickles come up like light escaping under a wall. There is no shape anywhere, so what is left is texture and colour.
Setting and placement
There is no more neutral combination than cream and black, so this competes with nothing else in a room. Against a darker wall the bright plane behaves like an opening cut into it.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, several coats of dense plaster scratched back when dry, shallow irregular scores, wet flowing black band
- Palette: cream, ivory, black, white
- Ideal for: living rooms, hallways, working corners
- Character: minimal, textural, extreme
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Time on the Wall for a hallway, bedroom or work corner
Time on the Wall is offered in 15 upright sizes, from 40 x 55 to 200 x 279 cm. The cream canvas with its black band along the lower edge settles on nearly any wall, so choose the size by the room: 50 x 69 or 60 x 83 cm in a hallway, 60 x 83 cm beside a bed, 70 x 97 cm above a console about 100 cm wide, which covers roughly two thirds of its width. Above a 120 cm desk, 80 x 111 cm fits, and a high living room or stairwell wall takes 100 x 139 or 140 x 195 cm.
The cream and black canvas comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang, when you choose YES in the Stretcher menu. A frame for Time on the Wall is optional, and the Frame menu begins with “Without frame”. Delivery takes 15–45 days. Time on the Wall is hand-painted, from the coats of dense plaster and scratched scores to the flowing black band, so this painting is not a print.
Questions before buying Time on the Wall
Which size of Time on the Wall suits a hallway?
In a narrow hallway choose 50 x 69 or 60 x 83 cm, and on a wider hallway wall 70 x 97 cm, so the cream plane reads as a bright opening.
Does Time on the Wall work on a dark wall?
Yes, on a darker wall the cream plane with its black band reads as an opening in the wall, and on a white wall as quiet texture.
Can I order Time on the Wall in a size that is not among the 15?
Yes, we paint the cream plane with its black band as a painting made to order in your measurements.
