Description
paintings – Proximity – two fields that barely touch
Wall art patinates an upright canvas into two large, softly bounded fields of blue-green and grey-blue divided by a darker horizontal seam just below the middle: decorative painting with no motif at all, closer to a piece of repeatedly repainted wall.
Technique and texture
The paint is laid thick with the blade and then smoothed, so cracks, furrows and tool impressions stay visible. In places the upper layer is scraped away and a darker ground looks through. The edges of the canvas are darkened while the centre of each field is lightest, which gives the picture a natural vignette that pulls the eye in.
The motif
The upper field is pale mint and whitish, with a dense relief of small cracks. The lower is cooler and greyer, worked in wider and quieter strokes. The seam between them is not a straight line but an uneven dark band that thins on the left and almost disappears. The corners are the darkest passages and turn grey-green at the upper left and lower right.
Setting and placement
A palette this restrained belongs where colour must not dominate — a bedroom, a waiting area, a working corner. It goes with white, timber and concrete furniture and with pale grey walls.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thickly laid and smoothed layers, visible cracks and tool marks, scraped-back passages
- Palette: mint, blue-green, grey-blue, grey-green
- Ideal for: bedrooms, waiting areas, working corners
- Character: restrained, tactile, atmospheric
Choose the size that suits your wall.
The video on this page (0:35) first shows the blue-grey relief surface close up and a hand drawing a palette knife across it, then the large painting Proximity in a dark frame leaning against a wall of frame samples, and finally the white raised paint in close-up.
Proximity: sizes, stretcher, frame
Proximity is painted in 15 upright sizes, from 30 x 50 to 180 x 305 cm. A narrow wall or the space beside a wardrobe takes 40 x 70 or 50 x 85 cm, a 90 cm console suits 60 x 105 cm, two thirds of its width, and along a long hallway or a stairwell the mint and grey-blue fields have room at 90 x 155 or 100 x 170 cm. Select YES under Stretcher and the canvas arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang; a frame for Proximity is chosen separately in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
The first photograph shows it with an optional thin black frame above a wooden dining table and a vase of yellow flowers, and the second photograph stands it on a studio easel in an optional silver frame, where the cracks and knife furrows are visible. The blue-green surface is hand-painted on canvas, so Proximity is a painting, not a print.
Questions about Proximity
Which size of Proximity suits a long hallway?
For a long hallway choose 90 x 155 cm; under a high ceiling the two blue-green fields also carry 100 x 170 cm.
Does Proximity come with a frame?
Only if you choose one: the frame is optional, and the Frame menu for Proximity starts at Without frame.
Is Proximity a print or a painting?
Proximity is a painting: the thick layers are laid and smoothed by hand with a knife, and its cracks are real, not printed.
How long does delivery of Proximity take?
The mint and grey-blue Proximity canvas arrives in 15–45 days.
