Original artwork description:

“In The White Room“ is an acrylic and encaustic painting 91x101cms on canvas. The painting is inspired by a song “White Room” written by poet/singer/writer Pete Brown in 1967 for Cream. It is a song which is melancholic, pensive and reflective. In the song the white room is a place where Pete Brown lived, but it also has a symbolic meaning which could be related to wellbeing, comfort, beginnings and endings. Most people will have been in a ‘white room’. I know I have and for me it relates to increasing knowledge of your subliminal perception. Being in a white room is a harbinger for transformation and change. It is a positive signal.
The painting is a response to reflective thinking. It is ambiguous and ambivalent yet transparent like water, gentle yet stern.
I build my paintings in layers of thin, transparent washes of colour combined with and overworked with impasto applications and encaustic. 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 respect and work with the nature of paint.
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.

Materials used:

Acrylic and encaustic on canvas