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Of Ether and Water IV –Original Bokeh Painting

Of Ether and Water IV –Original Bokeh Painting

Regular price $850.00 AUD
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Here is a spot of sparkle and glimmer just in time for New Years 2025

This is an original, one off, abstract painting on canvas that is ready to hang on your beautiful wall.

Medium: Acrylic Polymer Paint on Traditional Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Dimensions: H51cm x W51cm (20” x 20”)

‘Sometimes of Ether and Water IV’ is part of my ‘Bio Glow’ Series and makes reference to my ‘Aquatic’ series and my ‘Bokeh Light’ studies. Each in a round-about way exploring the sublime beauty found in microscopic-worlds, energetic molecules, head light beams in the night, underwater seascapes, like coral spawning and microscopic creatures but mostly the effervescence and glow contained within all life.

There is much here for your eyes to explore. The dramatic darks and subtle lights in this painting create an otherworldly feel. There are many layers of dots and colours giving the painting a soft 3D effect. This together with the highly defined circular forms drifting across the surface, move the eye in and out of focus. The layering and glazing technique I use creates an ethereal amorphous glow to the piece. The teal background adds contrast to the pinks, warm apricots and yellows in the foreground, which together with other splashes of colour give the painting a rich warm quality.

The circular organic motifs and the organic cluster patterns allude to cellular life forms, dainty aquatic-life and to the visceral otherworldliness of the building blocks of life like bioluminescent organisms, and molecules and the effervescence contained within the waters of life. The circles can also be viewed as patterns made by nature, light and rain on surfaces like a car windscreen. Or the photography reading of light giving the ‘bokeh’ effect, a soft out-of-focus blur of light beams.

The real aim was to create something universal, sublime and beautiful that connects with our memories of nature and feelings of tranquillity and beauty.

What I enjoy most about my paintings is they make people smile with a sense of wonderment and feelings of happiness as well as giving their walls finesse with a splash of colour for years to come.

 

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ALL PAINTINGS ARE VARNISHED with Professional Quality Artists Varnish, once they have been photographed. This gives a protective surface and a low sheen that really makes the colours powerful & eye-catching.

The painting is on canvas wrapped around traditional wooden stretcher bars with edges that are a smart 3.5cm deep out from your wall.

The edges are cleaned, staple free and painted an elegant black to compliment this painting.

Ready to hang with picture wire on back.

Painting is signed and titled verso.

 

NOTE: Artwork is sold UNFRAMED. 

SHADOW BOX FRAMING in raw oak, white or black can be arranged at for an additional fee. Message me for a quote.

This painting can be safely shipped off the stretcher bars in a tube for international collectors. Most picture framers are able to re-stretch the canvas for a reasonable fee.

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