Description
The First Sun of Spring, Hurley Woods Original Silk Painting and Limited Edition Prints
The woods near The Dewdrop Inn at Hurley are beautiful and good for the soul all year round. However I loved the light on the trees in the early spring sunshine – so much hope of things to come.
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.
Visit my?YouTube Channel?to see how my paintings are created and click?here?to read a bit more about me.
The original silk painting will come mounted in white to fit a 40 x 50 cm frame and packed with backing board and biodegradable cellophane. The actual image is 38.6 x 29.3 cm. Frame not included.
A limited edition giclee print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. Only a limited number of reproductions will be made and each print is numbered on the front. Each print comes in a white mount and packed with a backing board and cellophane wrapping. The following sizes are available:
| ?Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 40 x 50 cm | 40 x 50 cm | 39 x 28.9 cm |
| 8 x 10 inch | 8 x 10 inch | 14.1 x 19 cm |
