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Magpies at Sun Down Painting
Australia
Painting, Wax on Wood
Size: 52.8 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
Ships in a Crate
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About The Artwork
Australian magpies are magical birds. As well as being beautiful, they're highly intelligent, sing beautifully, and they can become lifelong friends with humans through the simplest acts of kindness. I adore the magpies who visit us at sun down. Every day, as the sun sinks behind the hills, they appear in our garden, playing games in the long grasses, or just sitting nearby and watching as the light disappears. This triptych, which is the largest I've ever created and makes a big impact on the wall, was inspired by our friendly magpies. It's based on a series of fine art photographs that I took of them early one evening, which I later transformed into an original encaustic artwork by burning layers of hardened beeswax and raw pigments into prepped wooden panels. I worked hard to build texture into the wax surface, and to create an ethereal, dreamlike quality in the finished piece. This triptych does not need to be framed or displayed behind glass. It is archival quality and each panel is prepped with picture hardware, ready to hang. Many of my encaustic originals are already gracing the walls of collectors' houses around this world, and this one is also available to be professionally packed and shipped internationally.
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:Wax on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:52.8 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
Number of Panels:3
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Australia.
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Australia
Finalist, Refocus Awards (People's Choice), 2024 Finalist, The Facet Art Prize, 2023 Finalist, The Alice Prize, 2020 I'm an artist and photographer from Byron Bay, in the beautiful sub-tropical region of the Northern Rivers, on the east coast of Australia. The region is known for its beautiful scenery and spectacular wildlife, which I enjoy photographing as a nature photographer. Alongside my career as a scholar and writer, I've been creating art all my life, exhibiting my work at art festivals around the world. In 2017 I decided to launch my own art business, Scorching Skies Art, as an outlet for my encaustic artworks, some of which can be seen here. The technique I'm known for is known as 'photographic encaustic'. It involves burning layers of melted beeswax into enlarged, heatproof photographs, which are bonded to wooden panels and then transformed into wax paintings through the application of oils, inks, pastels and other materials. The resulting artworks take on a life of their own and are impossible to replicate. I'm drawn to the technique because it has such an ethereal quality, and also because the way the wax and pigments mix under the live flame feels like alchemy. Recent accolades for my work include: Finalist in The Alice Prize 2020 for encaustic triptych, 'Alice's Finches' Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, 2019 (for 'Swooping Bee-eater', Skyward Series) Finalist in the 2018 Australian Photography of the Year awards (landscape category) Nominations in the 2017 and 2018 Fine Art Photography Awards, London (nature and wildlife categories) Shortlisted nominations in the 2017 and 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, London (earth's environments and black and white categories).
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