Mutual Incomprehension of Mouse and Bat Painting

*** About this Picture *** Most of us don't even understand ourselves, let alone anybody else. *** ‘Not for Sale’ *** Pictures marked ‘not for sale’ have either been put aside for an upcoming exhibition or they are on my list of personal favourites that I'm currently unwilling to sell. Circumstances change, though, so do check back in a month or two. When I get short of wall space (or money!) ‘not for sale’ paintings may end up changing their status. *** General Information about my Mixed-Media Paintings *** Size stated is of painted panel, not including mount and frame. Like most of my paintings, this one is painted on heavy watercolour paper, using mixed-media techniques of my own invention. By layering different elements (mainly watercolours and acrylics, but also touches of pencil, pastel, oil colour and ink) I create subtle, smouldering colours whose relationships appear to shift according to the play of the light. The overall effect doesn’t look like what you would expect from paint on paper - more like enamelled metal, or the rich glazes on studio ceramics. The paper I use has slightly rough, even edges, which you can’t see in the cropped image shown here. Unlike most conventional works on paper my paintings are float-mounted on conservation mountboard rather than displayed behind a window mount. This turns the image from a 2D ‘glimpse’ into a 3D object in its own right (albeit a relatively flat one). All my paintings are signed on the back of the paper panel. You can't see this signature without removing it from the mount, which is perfectly possible but which I wouldn’t recommend unless there is some genuinely pressing reason because this will destroy the mount . I don’t like signing pictures on the front, which is a comparatively modern, and largely pointless, practice. I want my paintings to have a jewel-like, iconic (in the literal sense) character, and a signature would interfere with the careful balance of colour and form that I aim to create. My paintings, with their deep, lustrous colours, will look especially vibrant when well lit - they won’t be happy in a dark corner. Small directional LED lights are ideal if you don’t have sufficient natural lighting. The pigments I use are all extremely light-fast but, despite the very high inherent stability of the work, it is best to avoid exposing it to lengthy periods of direct sunlight (in a conservatory, for example) or hanging it directly over a heat source. This probably wouldn’t damage the work itself, but might distort the mount or frame. It would also be wise to avoid exposing the work (or yourself) to excessive levels of moisture or atmospheric pollutants.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.3 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in

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