Love in a Penumbra Print

This piece is from my 'Beatitude' series where I favour the mid-tones and atmospheric effects of graphite, ink and colour pencils with some muted applications of acrylic. Like much of this series, this piece is an exploration of female sensuality and the desire to express it. The figures exist in a liminal space -other worldly- caught between light and shadow in a perpetual dance with nature. Rapture or adversity may come from outside forces or they may come from within, but a providential influence helps bring light from the shadows. As a Malaysian woman artist of Portuguese and Sri-Lankan descent, my early sensibilities were influenced by iconic images from the church going tradition I grew up in. Later in life, while living in Japan, l was drawn to Japanese Ukiyo-e and Sumi-e. This interest expanded through my explorations and travels, to include other Asian artistic traditions, like Moghul art, favouring line and decorative detail. These are some of the influences that have informed my artistic choices, not always immediately apparent in my works in other series, but very much discernible with this 'Beatitudes' series, where I have utilised line and some decorative detail to convey a sentiment or feeling. This series has been ongoing for years. The first in this series was in 1992, done in pencil on paper. I have since revisited this series over the years, even while working on other series, and experimented with different media and materials to further develop what essentially started out as smaller pencil drawings on paper. "Love in a Penumbra" is a mixed media piece done in graphite, ink, colour pencils and acrylic on canvas.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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