Apex Infinity of the Dragonessssque, A Portrait in Sunglasses Painting

A repeated theme in my work is that of the Dragon. So what does the Dragon represent to me? Oh, Where does one begin!!!??? For me the Dragon represents all that is esoteric and arcane. The mysterious, the profound, even the pre-eminent. The closest assumed form of life to a heavenly body or even a Demi-God. Right, so the Dragon is a myth, a story created by man to give explanation to the inexplicable. It follows that the Dragon is directly symbolic of my obsession, even my fetishist belief system around that which exists outside the ordinary rules of nature, the preternatural, the paradoxical. Yes! The Dragon, for me, is the symbolic epitome of the paradox, a central source of inspiration in my work. After all, how can something be thought of as non-existent, that is predominantly rife across all culture of us humans, across all time. A truly ubiquitous figment of the collective human imagination and psyche. A form of reasoning to explain that which we do not know or cannot prove about nature and the universe.... What’s also particularly noteworthy about this painting is the profuse use of cadmium red, orange and yellow. The use of cadmium in the production of these paints was prohibited in 2018, because of toxicity when inhaled or ingested. This would only apply to paint when it’s wet, a dry painting, plus mine are sealed and protected with a minimum of 2 glazes of varnish (depending on the desired finish too, this painting has 4 layers, so any toxicity is in a glass casket or museum display in effect!) would not be inhaled or ingested it’s fair to say. Even when I’ve been paid, I don’t particularly fancy my paintings being eaten! Anyhow, when I found that the cadmium colours were disappearing I made an effort to create a selection of works that celebrated the colours in their most vibrant and undiluted form. Dare I say I’m not poisoned or worse, dead from creating them! These colours have a resplendence that can’t be manufactured another way, indeed the colours have what I see as a particular significance in the way they respond to different light environments and changes, such as sunrise at dawn, has a different effect than sunset at dusk. I find in my 20+ years of working with these colours, that cadmium colours are particularly responsive to this scientific fact. Or in other words, this effect is accentuated greatly with cadmium colours, which are incidentally amongst the most expensive to use as well. Similarly different lighting responses based on the kelvin colour temperature scale (this refers to the light colour, not the light output) which applies to LED bulbs, whereby a low value represents a warm colour moving from red, to orange, to yellow (a standard 60W bulb is around 2700K to 3000K) through natural white, through to blue (cool lighting effect up to about 7000K, cool white maxes out at 6500K and yields to a slightly blueish tint) at the high end of the scale. Sunlight is accepted to be around 4500K, standardised at midday when the sun is highest in the sky, yet varies from sunset through to dusk. All paintings and colours are affected by this temperature scale of light, thus once you are aware of it, it becomes very noticeable and you become cognisant of the lighting effects a painting succumbs to in an environment. Where I deem it significant in my work, is that various images that your eye to brain recognition will pull forth and drag your vision to, from my at first completely abstract and random colour use, are dramatically effected by the light source or by comparison the time of day. As in, you may see a face or a representation of some symbolism, animal or creature in the work, further the lighting or time of day can, and I believe will, alter what you see and how you see it. Timescale is another prominent factor, in that your brain will automatically refer to imagery you have pulled out of the work and therefore influence the way you appreciate it. The more you view something the more your brain makes instantaneous connections with what you see, so by human nature, your perception alters over time. I am confident that a buyer would notice this now I have made this, or indeed these points known. I believe it makes my work potentially desirable in that what the viewer sees and identifies with, indefinitely alters and develops over time and in different light settings, naturally created by the sun or otherwise...

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22.5 W x 30.5 H x 1 D in

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