Nocturne #4 Painting

A full moon is glimpsed through a gap in the branches of a tree, briefly turning the tree into a nightmarish face. The sky is deep, dark blue, but it is stained red near the horizon by the lights of the nearby motorway and town. This is one of a series of nocturnes I painted some time ago. They were intended to explore the sensation of walking through fields after dark and are disorienting and otherworldly while remaining familiar. They all have very delicate spatial relationships within them; in this case there are trees in the middle ground which echo the main tree and make it familiar but give a beautiful sense of space. Like all my work, it is made from top quality, professional grade materials which should keep it looking good for decades to come. This painting makes particular use of contrasting and exotic blacks. The foreground was built up from a sledgehammer Ivory Black with a medium added to make it more physical and then I added glazes of the most intense black of them all (Spinel Black) on top to pull it as far into the foreground as possible. Elsewhere I made extensive use of transparent black earth colours to give life and delicacy and control the spatial relationships. The painting is on a simple box canvas with edges painted a deep, intense black. This gives it a modern feel and means it can be hung straight away or can be framed to suit its new home.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.5 D in

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