Original artwork description:

“The Stream With Bright Fish” is an acrylic, dye, sand 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 Harold Budd and Brian Eno, “A Stream With Bright Fish”, a piece off the 1984 album “The Pearl”. The music from the album has no edges. It is perhaps best described as “impressionist, ambient, minimalist”. It creates atmospheres that relate directly to the natural world created through subtly treated piano textures, but with more pronounced electronic treatments.
This is a landscape painting. Seen close up. It attempts to capture some of the tiny but most important things that can pass us by unless we take the time to really look and listen. The frozen moment. There is a phrase “the devil is in the detail” This phrase is developed from a more historic phrase "god is in the details", expressing the idea that details are critically important to human understanding. I have my doubts about religions but I do know that so often we all only see the surface. It’s about the time we ‘don’t have’.
My paintings are about atmospheres and the atmosphere here is one of contemplation. Music is important to me for lots of different reasons. I listen to music every day and sometimes 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 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, dye, wax and sand on canvas

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