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Original artwork description:
On original book pages from Virginia Woolf's, Night and Day.
I create beautiful and intriguing imagery by painting carefully composed figures on antique book pages. Any space between the figures exposes a background, which gives them context and narrative.
Book pages only come alive when they are read. The passing of time and trends will shape a reader’s interpretation of a book. These influences are often reflected in annotations or sketches that a reader leaves behind. As time continues to pass, the annotations or sketches are observed within the context of the page by future readers.
My work attempts to show compositions that radiate a sense of this interaction between the narrative structure and the superimposed presence of the reader. The subjects are turned away from the observer with their body language seemingly engages in the narrative, which remains magically exclusive.
My continuing fascination with contextually embedded human relationships, their complexity, interaction and emotional journey, acts as the main focus and motivation for creating my original work.
Stuart James Cain
Cambridge, UK
Materials used:
Brushed ink on vintage book pages on canvas and stretchers
Tags:
#vintage #girls #works on paper #cain #books pagesClosely Bound (hand painted original) (2015)
Painting
by Cain
2 Artist Reviews
£950 Sold
- Painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.01cm (unframed) / 76.2 x 101.6cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
On original book pages from Virginia Woolf's, Night and Day.
I create beautiful and intriguing imagery by painting carefully composed figures on antique book pages. Any space between the figures exposes a background, which gives them context and narrative.
Book pages only come alive when they are read. The passing of time and trends will shape a reader’s interpretation of a book. These influences are often reflected in annotations or sketches that a reader leaves behind. As time continues to pass, the annotations or sketches are observed within the context of the page by future readers.
My work attempts to show compositions that radiate a sense of this interaction between the narrative structure and the superimposed presence of the reader. The subjects are turned away from the observer with their body language seemingly engages in the narrative, which remains magically exclusive.
My continuing fascination with contextually embedded human relationships, their complexity, interaction and emotional journey, acts as the main focus and motivation for creating my original work.
Stuart James Cain
Cambridge, UK
Materials used:
Brushed ink on vintage book pages on canvas and stretchers
Tags:
#vintage #girls #works on paper #cain #books pages
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