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The Earth is Teeming Painting
France
Painting, Egg Tempera on Wood
Size: 12.2 W x 10.2 H x 0.4 D in
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About The Artwork
In autumn, when signs of life are disappearing on top of the ground, thoughts turn to the life hidden from our eyes, under the ground. This painting celebrates the strange, unconventionally beautiful creatures which can be unsettling. Here, we are invited to examine weevils, centipedes and other insects and small animals in minute detail; the teeming, colourful life under the deep red earth waiting to burst from the surface as the magnificent sun beats down. In the centre is a large, stylised scorpion, at once repellent and alluring. The painting is on an oak panel, prepared with gesso and water gilded. The gesso was incised before the application of bole and gilding to create the arcs of the sun and the gold leaf was punched to make it sparkle in the light. The paint was made by grinding raw pigments in egg tempera. The painting is signed on the reverse and has a d-ring attached so that it is ready to hang. This painting was selected for the Dourdan Salon de Printemps 2021.
Original Created:2021
Subjects:Animal
Materials:Wood
Styles:FigurativeFine Art
Mediums:Egg TemperaGold Leaf
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Egg Tempera on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12.2 W x 10.2 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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