Description
paintings – Faces 5 – overlapping looks in a wide band
Wall art plaits several long faces into one wide horizontal band so the edge of each continues into the next: painting on canvas in which no head is separable from the one beside it.
Technique and texture
The colour is laid smooth, with soft transitions inside each plane, so the faces read like polished stone. The borders between them are drawn with a dark blue or brown line that is thick in places and thins away to nothing in others. Fine light traces run down from the eyes, painted with a single stroke each.
The motif
Each head is angled away from the next and none of them meets the viewer. Hair runs in wide curves and links one head to the next, so the band never falls apart. Because the faces are cut by the edge, the row appears to continue beyond the canvas, and the eyes are large and almond-shaped with a white highlight in each.
Setting and placement
Saturated colour behind strong contours takes the leading part in a room rather than supporting it, which is a choice to make before hanging it. The wide proportion suits the wall above a longer piece of furniture, or a passage where it is met side-on.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, smooth stone-like planes, variable dark dividing line, single-stroke light traces
- Palette: blue-green, olive, pink, rust, red
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms, passages
- Character: interlocked, saturated, frontal
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Which size where?
Faces 5, a band of interlocking faces, is painted in 19 landscape sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm. The wide band of faces belongs over longer furniture: above a 200 cm sofa the two-thirds rule gives 130 x 65 cm, above a bed 160–180 cm wide 110 x 55 or 120 x 60 cm, above a 220 cm dining table 150 x 75 cm, and along a long passage 180 x 90 or 200 x 100 cm. Choose YES in the Stretcher menu, and the canvas of blue-green, olive and pink planes will be stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame for Faces 5 is a matter of choice; the Frame menu starts at Without frame, and without one the faces cut by the edge seem to carry on past the canvas. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
The painting is hand-painted on canvas, its dark blue and brown contours and the light traces under the eyes drawn by brush rather than printed.
Before ordering
Which size of Faces 5 goes above a dining table?
Above a 220 cm table choose 150 x 75 cm, above a 180 cm table 120 x 60 cm, so the band of faces spans about two thirds of the table.
Does Faces 5 arrive ready to hang?
Yes, with YES in the Stretcher menu the blue-green and pink canvas is stretched on a wooden stretcher.
How long does delivery of Faces 5 take?
All 19 sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm, are delivered in 15–45 days.
Can I order Faces 5 in a size that is not listed?
For a wall that none of the 19 landscape sizes fits, ask us about a painting made to order with the interlocking faces.
