Gatekeeper at Dusk, Evershot, Dorset

£18.00£65.00

Gatekeeper at Dusk, Evershot, Dorset

Description

Gatekeeper at Dusk, Evershot, Dorset Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints

A few years ago I was commissioned by a lovely American couple to paint a different view in Evershot in Dorset which had family connections for them. Whilst walking to the spot they had chosen I walked through the Dorset countryside and realised how beautiful it is. I caught this little gatekeeper fluttering along the hedgerow.

My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects.

The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.

You can see a time lapse video of me painting?here.

A signed giclee print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. It will come mounted in white and packed with a backing board in biodegradable cellophane. It is an open edition so there is no limit to the number of reproductions that can be made. The following size prints are available:

?Size Mount Size (frame size required) Actual Image Size
40 x 50 cm 40 x 50 cm 39 x 29 cm
8 x 10 inch 8 x 10 inch 14.1 x 19 cm

Additional information

Type

Framed Original Silk Painting, Mounted Original Silk Painting, Mounted Signed Giclee Print

Size

8 x 10 inch, 40 x 50 cm