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United States
Painting, Wax on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 32 W x 32 H x 0.1 D in
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Masses of poppies and cornflowers blooming on a new nature walk inspired this work. The variety of reds countered by the blues, pinks and red violet cornflowers as well as the variety of greens were a challenge to to achieve. I am also inspired by kaleidoscopes, rose windows and mandalas. I hope the viewer will get lost in the intense colors, the repetition, detail, composition and be reminded of the beauty and hope associated with spring. The bees at the center represent the buzz of them (a buzz of bees?) as they happily fly from poppy to poppy to collect pollen. I chose the medium of batik on silk because it is my favorite medium. The dyes luminesce on the silk and I love the way they spread and blend and the way the wax fluidly covers them to enable my style, though realistic, to emerge. The silk lends itself to the cut edges and interior shapes and the gold leaf is like sunshine, but also chameleon-like in how it reflects light darkly or brilliantly.
Original Created:2020
Subjects:Botanic
Materials:Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)Other
Mediums:WaxFabricWatercolor
Painting:Wax on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:32 W x 32 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships rolled in a tube. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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I was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, into a family of artists. My parents and brother moved to Canada when I was six and after a few years in Vancouver, Kamloops and Seattle my mother and I settled in Southern California where I attended high school and college. I received my BA in Drawing and Painting (1965) and my MA in Illustration (1972) from California State University Long Beach. Watercolor and/or silk painting (batik) are my favorite mediums. My paternal grandfather, Rasmus Christiansen (the spelling is correct, my father changed the i to a j) was a well known painter and illustrator in Denmark whose biography was recently published in a book, Rasmus Christiansen: Tegner go Maler (1863 -1940), En sommergest i Hjarbæk by Ole Utoft. Growing up I was surrounded by his paintings, drawings and illustrations. I was particularly impressed by an ink drawing of an oak tree, which I spent many hours copying, admiring his attention to detail and trying to learn his ink techniques. My father, Jørgen, was trained as a silversmith. Sadly, he lost an eye from injuries he sustained when the airplane he was flying solo to qualify as a pilot plunged into Hjarbæk Fjord, ending his silversmithing days and his dream of becoming a pilot. I was quite fascinated by his glass eye. The imagery I select is inspired by my surroundings, whether landscape, garden, or my cats. It's about preserving a perfect moment in time to be enjoyed at leisure. I can't imagine living without art. My favorite media for creating my paintings are watercolor and batik. I trust watercolor is a familiar medium, but will explain batik, since it is not as familiar. The art of batik, a process for using multiple layers of melted wax for creating images on fabric can be traced back to prehistoric times. Wax or other types of resists are applied to cloth to repel dye, the unwaxed areas absorbing dyes by immersion in dye baths. The technique has been practiced through time and throughout the world, each country developing unique tools and techniques. In the process I use to create my batiks the image develops gradually by alternating the wax and dye process until it is complete and the whole fabric is covered with wax which is removed by ironing fabric between sheets of tissue or newspaper (or it can be dry cleaned) and dyes are set by steaming. I paint or spray concentrated dyes onto stretched silk using techniques similar to my watercolors.
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