Original artwork description:

“By The Light Of The Silvery Moon” is an acrylic, dye, sand and wax painting on canvas 100x100cms (unframed). Set within a solid beech frame it measures 117x117cms (please see pictures). The exhibition quality canvas is stretched over a custom frame supported by cross bars and steel corner and edge braces.
The painting takes its name and character from a neo classical work by Harold Budd “She Dances By The Light Of The Silvery Moon” a piece off the 1991 album “By Dawns Early Light”. The music from the album has no edges. Sounds are merged with poems. It is perhaps best described as “impressionist, ambient, minimalist”. It creates atmospheres relating to surroundings. This is a landscape painting. A night painting. There are no edges because nightfall blurs shapes and softens edges. The location is a beach. An empty beach. It’s been raining. The marshes surrounding the sands are wet with rain.
My paintings are about atmospheres and the atmosphere here is one of contemplation. The experience of making a painting like this is less to do with replication of what exists ‘on the surface’ and more to do with the pervading ambience, tone or mood of a location. The distinctive atmosphere or quality that surrounds a location and that aura is hopefully represented in composition and colour.
I build my paintings in layers of thin, transparent washes of colour combined with and overworked with impasto applications and wax. I use brushes, knives and cloths. I let the paint take its own course. I like the process of painting, so I purposefully leave in the traces of its behaviour such as the marks of knife and brush and the stream and trickle of diluted pigment. I enjoy the incident and accident of painting. I let incidents occur. I invite them into the process and I respect and work with the nature of paint. I am continually inspired by modernists and colourists Barbara Rae, Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres , John Hoyland and Mark Rothko. I look to the Impressionists to enjoy their visual responses to light and colour.
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 £90. The price shown is for the unframed work. The painting can, however, be bought fully framed as seen in the pictures. The frame is quite substantial and weighs in at 3.5kg. This affects transport costs together with the cost of the frame (£85). Please contact me through Artfinder if you wish the frame to be included.

Materials used:

Acrylic, dye, wax and sand on canvas

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