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If you don't want any spoilers, watch my short video at the bottom of this page first.
Okay, you've watched it? Lovely.
I hate winter.
And I know, I know! You can't have 'day' without 'night' and where would 'hot' be if 'cold' didn't exist? And if it was summer all the time, I would probably forget to notice and appreciate it.
And at first, I was going to make two separate paintings: a winter one and a summer one. However the more I thought about it, the more I realized they're just different sides of the same coin. The trees that are bare and cold in the middle of December are the same trees that fill the sky with lush green hues come July. You can't have one without the other.
That's why the tree in the painting is the very same piece of wood on the summer side as the winter side. The tree goes right through the middle of the piece and is milled from solid English pippy oak. I gave it a light oiling to bring out the grain and that's all. It feels like cheating, really...
So it's two paintings in one. A diptych of sorts, although you don't get to see both sides at once. And I like the idea that if you have it on your wall, maybe you decide that you like the summer side best and display that side all the time.
But how long before summer goes unnoticed? Before it becomes part of the furniture?
In that case, maybe it's nice to know winter isn't too far away.
TITLE: Green Again
DIMENSIONS: 48 x 55 x 7.2cm
MEDIUM: Spray paint
MATERIAL: Oak, plywood, MDF
EDITION SIZE: 5
MISCELLANEOUS: Signed, dated and numbered on the mount plate, ships in a foam lined crate (have a Phillips head ready)
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If you don't want any spoilers, watch my short video at the bottom of this page first.
Okay, you've watched it? Lovely.
I hate winter.
And I know, I know! You can't have 'day' without 'night' and where would 'hot' be if 'cold' didn't exist? And if it was summer all the time, I would probably forget to notice and appreciate it.
And at first, I was going to make two separate paintings: a winter one and a summer one. However the more I thought about it, the more I realized they're just different sides of the same coin. The trees that are bare and cold in the middle of December are the same trees that fill the sky with lush green hues come July. You can't have one without the other.
That's why the tree in the painting is the very same piece of wood on the summer side as the winter side. The tree goes right through the middle of the piece and is milled from solid English pippy oak. I gave it a light oiling to bring out the grain and that's all. It feels like cheating, really...
So it's two paintings in one. A diptych of sorts, although you don't get to see both sides at once. And I like the idea that if you have it on your wall, maybe you decide that you like the summer side best and display that side all the time.
But how long before summer goes unnoticed? Before it becomes part of the furniture?
In that case, maybe it's nice to know winter isn't too far away.
TITLE: Green Again
DIMENSIONS: 48 x 55 x 7.2cm
MEDIUM: Spray paint
MATERIAL: Oak, plywood, MDF
EDITION SIZE: 5
MISCELLANEOUS: Signed, dated and numbered on the mount plate, ships in a foam lined crate (have a Phillips head ready)
