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The Early Bird Painting
France
Painting, Tempera on Wood
Size: 3.9 W x 6.3 H x 0.4 D in
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About The Artwork
'The Early Bird' is a small, egg tempera painting with gold leaf on an oak panel, showing a coal tit holding a worm in its beak. Its title comes from the English proverb, 'the early bird catches the worm'. The painting was inspired by the coming of Spring and the return of birds to the courtyard of my house. The coal tit is a small bird with subtle colours, which contrast with the strong, deep red of the background. The down on its belly and head stands on end, giving it a particularly soft, round and appealing appearance. The bird is intent on the worm in its beak so that it seems unaware of the viewer, who can study it at leaisure. Egg tempera paint, made by grinding dry pigments in egg yolk, was used to make the picture, along with 23 carat gold leaf on an oak panel coated with gesso (calcium carbonate and kaolin in animal skin glue). The painting has an exposed wood border (included in the given dimensions) so that it can be displayed unframed, for example on a mini easel. It can also be framed to make it more imposing. It is signed and dated on the reverse and has a d-ring attached so that it is ready to hang.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Tempera on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:3.9 W x 6.3 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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