Description
In Space IX – bands like a cut through a trunk
Wall art slices the canvas into upright bands of different widths, running from cream and ochre on the left through a dark bark-like strip to grey-green, then to a dotted blue-green and white, and closing brown-red at the right edge: modern painting with no horizon at all, held together by the rhythm of those bands alone.
Technique and texture
Every band was worked in a different way: one beaten into a rough bark-like crust, another smoothed until it is matt, a third flicked over with dark drops. Leaf imprints are pressed into the white band on the right, leaving veins and outline behind but no colour. The joins between bands are rubbed rather than ruled, so they look worn instead of cut.
The motif
The bands do not repeat in any order and no width comes back a second time, which keeps the rhythm uneven all the way across. The blue-green dots are gathered into a band of their own and are the only saturated cool note on the canvas. The leaf imprints stand upright, running the same way as the bands, so nothing here crosses anything else.
Setting and placement
A sequence of earth colours goes quietly with wood, concrete and natural cloth. Nothing here pulls at the eye, which makes it suited to a room where people work or eat — a study, a dining room, a hallway.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, beaten bark crust, pressed leaf imprints, rubbed band edges
- Palette: cream, ochre, grey-green, blue-green, brown-red
- Ideal for: studies, dining rooms, hallways
- Character: earthy, calm, material
Choose the size that suits your wall.
In Space IX: bands for a dining room, study or hallway
In Space IX is painted in 19 landscape sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm, the canvas always twice as wide as it is tall. Let the upright bands from cream to brown-red cover about two thirds of the furniture: 120 x 60 cm over a 180 cm dining table, 100 x 50 cm above a 150 cm desk, 130 x 65 cm over a 200 cm sofa, and 110 x 55 cm above a 160 cm bed. A long hallway takes 180 x 90 or 200 x 100 cm.
To hang it without waiting, choose YES under Stretcher and the canvas with its leaf imprints comes on a wooden stretcher. A frame for In Space IX is added only if you wish, since the Frame menu opens at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. The bark-like crust and pressed leaves are hand-painted, so the painting In Space IX is not a print.
In Space IX in three answers
Which size of In Space IX suits a dining table?
Over a 180 cm table take 120 x 60 cm, and over a longer table the earth-coloured bands also fill 140 x 70 cm well.
Does In Space IX arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES under Stretcher the canvas of upright bands comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Is In Space IX a print?
No, the beaten crust, the blue-green dots and the leaf imprints are made on the canvas by hand.
