Original artwork description:

My Stolen Time series of paintings began when the UK went into lockdown in March 2020. The title Stolen Time relates to many things: the lockdown as well as the gift of time that I was given as the whole world was forced to pause. Every day I walked to my studio across the fields in the Sussex countryside, observing and being inspired by nature & the quiet that fell upon everything. The images and inspiration from these daily walks found their way into the pieces in this series.

This piece was made using fine Italian linen, a beautiful surface (I’m never sure if I want to wear it or paint on it)! Here I took a selection of various greys and used the varying viscosity of layered paints to overlap and catch the different tones. Light and dark elements created a spatial ambiguity which bodies forth in the lower half of the painting. The black and magenta elements create a sense of the plane and pictorial depth which the greys at once undermine, creating an illusion of three dimensionality. These spatial ambiguities chime with our uncertain times. The piece has been created by the build up of fluid and viscous layers and brought to conclusion with glazing and dry brush work.

This painting, Stolen Time 90, is framed in a bespoke white frame and is ready to hang.

Materials used:

Acrylic on Canvas

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