Artwork description:

This is amonotype print of a landscape scene at night time capturing the majesty of the Moon and its shining light upon the world. The image has been produced through layering many layers of colour on top of one another, forming the image of the landscape, whilst the Moon is the white of the paper shining through.

The title comes from the french meaning for 'Moonlight' and is borrowed from this poem by Paul Verlaine, published 1869:

'Clare de Lune'

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

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Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masquerades and dancers are promenading,
Playing the lute and dancing, and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

While singing in a minor key
Of victorious love, and the pleasant life
They seem not to believe in their own happiness
And their song blends with the light of the moon,

With the sad and beautiful light of the moon,
Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming,
And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
The slender water streams among the marble statues.

Materials used:

Waterbased Printing Ink on Cartridge Paper

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