Perseus in Aethiopia

Perseus in Aethiopia

£250

Acrylic and mixed media painting with added sculptural relief in Meccano® and copper.
61cmsq (stretcher size) approx 12cm deep.
Within a series starting with the idea of allegory.
The added structure was assembled using Meccano® parts and copper. It is attached to the stretcher and the canvas.

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Notebook page with annotations for symbolic and allegorical references.

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Jan 2016

 

Sea Shell Sky

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Mixed Media and acrylic medium on canvas. 40cm sq

What might be a landscape or seascape is turned to form another plane or reality. The boundary between surfaces and realities is blurred. Scale becomes ambiguous. The crusted edges either coast or shell, the pearl-shimmer horizons are twisted from the horizontal.