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New Life XIII

'Stardust' 2024

 

Dip-pen drawing in oak-gall and Walnut ink. Hand-made watercolours, traditional recipes and techniques using historically accurate, genuine earth pigments sourced from Australia, Italy, England, USA, Germany, Spain, Iberia, Greece, Armenia, France, Israel,India, Cyprus, Portugal and Morocco.

Also the very rare and precious blue Vivianite and Azurite pigments

Hand-applied fine Dutch gold leaf (copper:zinc:aluminium) in the traditional method.

Italian, eco-certified, archival, artist quality, animal free paper

Framed in Tasmanian Oak Natural Timber

Note: A sample of the raw Azurite stones from which the pigment is made is on show at Honest Paper.

 

Inspired by the notion that 'we are all made of stardust' and therefore made of the same stardust as all the wonderful flowers, this work has been created with a wonderful array of natural ochre pigments from around the world to celebrate flowers. Ochre is a pigment used by artists throughout human history from pre-antiquity to now. Technically it is a natural clay earth, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. Depending on the binding medium (the 'glue' that attaches the pigment to the surface) artists used ochre for body painting, on paper and by the most famous artists - on canvas. In this work, I have used genuine natural tree gum from acacia trees, known as gum arabica, this has been used for centuries as a binding medium for watercolours. It dries to a clear crystalline form thus accentuating the pigment colour.

 

In the spirit of 'all is connected', these ochres are sourced from layers of earth below the surface of different landscapes, the similarity and beauty of the materials is a connection, a meeting point laid out in this artwork, symbolic of love and protection.

New Life XIII

$1,200.00Price

760mm x 560mm

300gsm Eco Certified Archival Paper made by Fabriano in Italy

*Vegan friendly paper and paints

Genuine top-quality 100% natural earth pigments

Dutch gold leaf made in traditional way with copper, zinc, aluminium

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