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They Flock the Sky Painting
France
Painting, Tempera on Wood
Size: 12.2 W x 10.2 H x 0.4 D in
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About The Artwork
This egg tempera painting on a gold ground is an explosion of winged life, crowding out of the panel, propelled by the energy of a blazing sun. Carefully rendered animals, like the bee in the bottom right, share space with fantasy creatures, like the green beetle in the centre, and stylised ones, like the blue tit and the red dragonfly. Equal beauty is found in a humming bird and a crane fly, a butterfly and a mosquito. Punch marks in the gold leaf ground form the sun, which sparkles in the upper right. The punch marks become gradully less dense as they catch up with the animals and tiny gnats or moths begin to dot the sky in place of sun beams. I wanted to give an impression of exuberance and of life bursting out on all sides, celebrating the life-giving properties of the sun. The painting is on an oak panel prepared with gesso. It has been water gilded and then painted in egg tempera, made by grinding raw pigments in egg yolk and water. 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: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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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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