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France
Painting, Egg Tempera on Wood
Size: 9.8 W x 9.8 H x 0.4 D in
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'Floating' is painted in pigments hand ground in egg tempera on an oak panel, with incised water gilding. The deep, semi-transparent ultramarine blue is laid over a black ground, creating a vivid, vibrating colour, shading from total black at the bottom to a bright, white surface where the warm, blue water hits the golden sky. The female figure is sculpted in gesso plaster and stands proud of the panel in low relief. She hangs at the surface of the water, her face bathed in rays of golden sunlight, which are incised into the gold leaf. There is a sense of calm, quiet and wonder. The figure surrenders to the power of nature and to the sensation of floating, suspended above the menacing, black depths. The square painting is signed and dated on the reverse and has a d-ring attached so that it is ready to hang.
Original Created:2021
Subjects:Body
Materials:Wood
Styles:FigurativeFine ArtMinimalism
Mediums:Egg TemperaGold LeafGesso
Painting:Egg Tempera on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9.8 W x 9.8 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:France.
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France
I am a British artist based in the western suburbs of Paris. Firmly rooted in medieval methods, I use aesthetic devices originally meant to glorify the church to make secular paintings conveying the wonder and power of the natural world and the ambiguity of man’s relationship with it. I fell in love with early Italian painting while living in Florence, and returned to the UK to study it in a masters degree at Oxford University. I then went on to train as a paintings conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, where I became passionate about the materials and techniques of medieval European art and learned to gild and paint in hand-made egg tempera on wooden panels prepared with gesso. After many years researching these methods in theory and practice, culminating in the publication of my annotated translation of Cennino Cennini’s fifteenth century treatise on art, I began to develop my own artistic practice. My paintings, which have been sold to collectors world-wide, have been selected for numerous local salons and I was shortlisted for the New Emergence Art Prize in 2022.
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