Description
Horizon I – three bands that nature never made
Wall art terraces three horizontal bands one above another, green-grey at the top, a bright yellow-gold through the middle and red-brown below: modern painting rather than landscape, because no sky does that.
Technique and texture
Each band went on with a blade in long horizontal passes and was then combed through, so the colour sits in ridges and troughs instead of on a level surface. Where two bands meet, the neighbouring colour shows up inside individual furrows, because they were worked while both were still wet. The top edge is the darkest and the most densely combed; the bottom is the smoothest.
The motif
The sequence is not a natural one, and yet it is read as a horizon because the bands are level and the brightness rises toward the middle. The yellow band is the narrowest and the lightest, so it behaves like a source of light held between two darker ones. There is no object anywhere; the depth is made entirely by the order of the colours.
Setting and placement
A long low picture wants a long low wall — above a sideboard or a desk, where the width is available and the height is not. The earth tones settle easily against rattan, clay and pale oak.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, long blade passes, combed ridges and troughs, wet-into-wet band edges
- Palette: green-grey, yellow-gold, red-brown, ochre
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms, studies
- Character: calm, horizontal, earthy
Choose the size that suits your wall.
