Description
Man O’War Beach, Durdle Door, Dorset, Original Silk Painting
On a sunny day, the beautiful Jurassic coast has it all: turquoise sea, white sand and flora and fauna to delight. Durdle Door is one of the jewels of this section of coast. I wonder why I ever holiday abroad! For me the Centranthus Ruber that grows on the cliff tops here just perfectly sets off the blue of the sea. Apparently Centranthus Ruber is also known as Kiss-me-quick which seems very appropriate at the seaside.
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.
The original painting will come mounted to fit a 60 x 80 cm frame. The actual image size is 40 x 60 cm. Frame is not included.
