Description
paintings – Coast – a rainbow wood over still water
Wall art twins a many-coloured wood in the calm water beneath it so that the upper and lower halves of the canvas carry the same colour sequence: decorative painting that gets its structure from a fold rather than from a composition.
Technique and texture
The canopies are built from dense short loads of the blade that stand off the canvas and catch light like moss. The water is the opposite of that — pulled downward in long, smooth, thin passes with no relief at all. Thin dark trunks are drawn through the canopies, cut into paint that was still wet.
The motif
The reflection is not an exact copy: the colours in the water are softer and drawn out, and the outlines dissolve. Canopies run from green and turquoise on the left through yellow, orange and red to pink and violet on the right, without a break anywhere in the passage. A narrow dark band of shore lies between wood and reflection and is the only place the picture goes quiet.
Setting and placement
A colour range this wide takes the role of the main chromatic event in a room, so the wall behind it should be plain and of one colour. Side light is what makes the relief of the canopies legible; flat light gives most of it away.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, dense short blade loads, long smooth pulled water, trunks cut into wet paint
- Palette: green, turquoise, yellow, orange, red, violet
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms, reception rooms
- Character: saturated, mirrored, spectral
Choose the size that suits your wall.
