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The Encounter Print
France
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About The Artwork
This drawing of a slug encountering a daisy was made during a period when I was battling an invasion of slugs in the flowerpots in my courtyard. I couldn't help noticing the way that the slugs' bodies formed very aesthetically pleasing curves and the slugs' feelers seemed to me very expressive, so that I began to find the slugs endearing rather than repellant. In the picture, the slug has come across a daisy and the position of its antennae in relation to the daisy suggest that it is intrigued and perhaps anticipating a meal, although I have no idea whether slugs really eat daisies or not! The technique used is very linear, to emphasise the clean curves of the slug's body, and the shading has been created using cross hatching. The materials are Parker black ink on Hahnemule natural white, acid free, 300g/m2, hot pressed, watercolour paper. The drawing is initialled in the lower right.
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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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