Description
Play of Sun and Nature – two fields and the seam between them
Wall art splices an upright canvas into a gold-yellow field radiating downward and a grass-green one growing up to meet it — decorative painting reduced to two directions and the bright line where they arrive.
Technique and texture
The paint went on in short dense strokes that open outward from the middle line like fibres, and nowhere was it smoothed. The bright line itself was laid last, in the thickest white and yellow on the canvas, so it stands above both fields. Toward the top and bottom edges the strokes lengthen and the colour darkens.
The motif
The two halves are not equal: the upper is more open and even, the lower denser and more overgrown, which gives their meeting a direction. In places the fibres cross the centre line and stitch the halves together. Nothing is depicted — sun and earth are only colour and the direction of a stroke.
Setting and placement
An upright picture that pushes upward will fill a narrow wall or a niche better than a wide one, and it draws the eye up with it. Rooms held in neutral tones are where this much saturation does the most work.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, short radiating fibre strokes, thickest white and yellow laid last, unsmoothed surface
- Palette: gold-yellow, grass green, white, dark green
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms, hallways
- Character: vertical, saturated, energetic
Choose the size that suits your wall.
