Original artwork description:

I am facinated by patterns and shapes in nature and love the movement, reflections and shimmer of fish swimming in shoals.

This is my ninth version of "The Golden One" and the fourth version with koi carp.
Before cutting out the koi fish shapes I used acrylic paint with patterned rollers to create sheets of patterned watercolour paper. I then cut the fish shapes from these sheets and painted each one with different metallic blue watercolours.

Each fish is shaped by hand and mounted on a small foam board plinth to enhance the three dimensional effect, and this helps to cast interesting shadows depending on where the light is coming from.

I take a long time positioning my forms until I'm really happy with the whole, and then they are fixed to plain, heavy watercolour paper backing ready for framing.

The whole piece is framed in a glazed (perspex) white deep box frame.

Materials used:

Acrylic and metallic watercolour on watercolour paper, foam board, in a white deep box frame glazed with perspex

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