Original artwork description:

“Final Sunset” is an acrylic 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 Brian Eno called “Final Sunset” a piece off the 1978 album “Music For Films”. The music from the album has no edges. It is perhaps best described as “impressionist, ambient, minimalist”. The essence of the 18 musical works which form Music for Films is that each piece creates its own little film, stimulating the visual part of one's brain and thus fulfilling its purpose as ‘film music’. In that sense, Music for Films was revolutionary in 1978. The album is very haunting and evocative creating powerful images, memories, or feelings to mind. Every track has a different texture on it, some are swirling and spacey, some are dark and vivid, and some are pastoral being very bright and brimming with light.
The painting is a pastoral, impressionist work taking its source from a beach where light is glowing. The forms, colours, and textures blossom within a heat haze as air rising above a hot sandy surface with a shimmering effect that obscures the details of the landscape. The heat of the sun making it difficult to see objects clearly. Light starts playing tricks, giving rise to shimmering images. Air expands as it warms up and this affects the speed of light travelling through it. Looking through this shifting pattern is like peering through an ever-changing lens. When it is really hot the distortion increases and the heat haze swallows up distant objects completely.
My paintings are about atmospheres and the atmosphere here is one of deep reflective thought. The parallels between visual and audible sensations are very close. 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 or a time. 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 acrylic 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 still look to the Impressionists to understand and 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 unframed 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 on canvas

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