Original artwork description:

“Beeblossom” is an acrylic painting 91cms H x 61cms W x 2.5cms D on exhibition quality canvas. The painting is built in layers over a lightly primed canvas. I work directly over the canvas using brushes, knives, cloths and squeegees to manage layers of acrylic paint. It is a continuous process of ‘correction’. I erase and rub away surfaces to reveal what is hidden. This process helps to develop creative accident and expression. These areas are textured and managed through both impasto and translucent liquid colour. Other areas of the painting are purposefully hard edged and solid in colour. Overall this creates a balance of expressive structure. In this painting the balance between solid structure and gestural painting is more enigmatic. There appears to be a friction and possible discord between the two states. The painting attempts to marry the two states in visual polyphony. Whether an artist works directly from nature, from memory, or from fantasy, nature is always the source of the creative impulses. ‘’Beeblossom” as a painting, manifests an event, a sensation, and imaginings inspired by nature. Through line, space, colour, and plane the key principles are that nature takes abstract shape and form in paintings such as Beeblossom. The representations of nature are quite the contrary, they are non-representations. The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature, translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. In nature, light creates the colour. In a painting colour creates the light. The boundaries of what can be managed in a painting present a constant challenge to me and through a process of layering, cancellation and improvisation my intention is always to test such boundaries.
“Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with colour, light and form in the rhythm of life.” – Hans Hoffman.
Beeblossom is the common name for Gaura which is a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, native to North America. The name was derived from Greek γαῦρος meaning "superb" and named in reference to the stature and floral display of some species in this genus. The genus included many species known commonly as beeblossoms. Graceful, hazy plants with airy wands of white, fading to pink, star-shaped flowers with distinctive long anthers like daddy long-legs, held on slender stems.
The painting is not a literal translation. It is a homage to one of nature’s beauties. I take inspiration from the abstract expressionists ie: Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell , Elizabeth Frankenthaler and Gillian Ayres.
The painting is signed on the back, but can be signed on the front at request.
The painting is shipped in a robust custom made cardboard crate (same as those used to transport large screens). The painting is bubble wrapped to protect the canvas. Further wrapping is made with corrugated card. A wooden frame is placed inside the cardboard crate to preserve the structural strength of the packaging. Each painting is insured to its sale value. Shipping costs within the U.K. take into consideration weight and insurance. U.K. shipping costs for this artwork are £75

Materials used:

Acrylic on canvas

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