Description
City Above Water – towers and their double
Wall art echoes a city skyline in the still water below it, towers above and their reflection beneath: decorative painting whose subject is repetition with a difference.
Technique and texture
The whole surface is laid with a blade in short horizontal strokes that stack on each other in steps. The sky is the only place with a thinly drawn-out, smooth application. The aerials are scored into fresh paint with a point, so they are incised rather than painted.
The motif
The waterline is given by a slight change in the direction of the strokes and not by a hard edge. The towers are of different heights and densely packed, so the city reads as large despite the narrow format. Buildings are stacked from violet, cream, orange and green loads, and the reflection repeats those colours more thinly and more brightly; green appears in a single narrow band and warms the row from one side.
Setting and placement
A narrow upright crop fills the tall tight space between shelves or beside a door, where width is what is missing. On a pale wall the violet side of the palette opens up.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, stepped short horizontal blade strokes, thinly drawn-out sky, aerials incised into fresh paint
- Palette: violet, cream, orange, green, pale blue
- Ideal for: hallways, entrance halls, narrow wall sections
- Character: stacked, urban, cool
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Sizes, stretcher, frame
City Above Water is painted in 15 tall upright sizes, from 30 x 60 to 180 x 385 cm. The towers and their reflection want height rather than width: between two shelves fit 40 x 80 or 50 x 100 cm, beside a door 60 x 120 cm, above a 120 cm console the two-thirds rule gives 80 x 170 cm, and a stairwell takes 100 x 200 or 110 x 235 cm. With YES chosen under Stretcher, the canvas of violet and orange towers comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. The Frame menu starts at Without frame, so a frame for City Above Water is only an extra you can choose. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
This painting is hand-painted with a blade, its aerials scratched into the wet paint, so the violet towers are not a print.
Buyers’ questions
Which size of City Above Water works on a wall beside a door?
Beside a door 60 x 120 cm works well; the narrow upright format with towers and reflection fills the height left empty next to the frame of the door.
Does City Above Water arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES chosen under Stretcher the canvas of violet towers is stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I order City Above Water in a size that is not listed?
If none of the 15 sizes from 30 x 60 to 180 x 385 cm suits your wall, ask us about a painting made to order.
