Sea Spirit

This listing is for an an abstract mixed media painting on un-stretched high quality duck canvas. The dimensions of this piece are 150cm X 90cm.

This large scale piece was inspired by Aussie Summers, the crashing of waves and sand between the toes. It has a gorgeous earthy palette of blues, greens white and browns with a shimmery shine from accents of silver and gold.

Deeply inspired by organic elements that are immensely expressive, beautifully intuitive and evoke a magnetic sense of freedom, Michelle creates works that celebrate the core components of environmental beauty. Utilising a mix of mediums that include inks, high flow paints and markers, her creative process is liberal, highly instinctive, free of inhibitions, and aims to engage viewers by stirring emotional connections. Producing each work through a method of multilayering, the initial stages add texture, contrast and depth, as the colours and composition are worked to a refined quality, whilst the final inclusions add dimension, vitality and expression, as the paint is integrated in an exceedingly energetic approach.

This piece will make an impact in any space. It has been varnished with a UV resistant varnish.

This artwork will require stretching, please choose add custom frame above to select stretching and add framing (optional).

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Dispensing an explosion of colour onto the canvas, the work of Sydney artist Michelle
Drougas is unequivocally evocative, instinctual and encapsulating. Intoxicated by the
quintessence of organic creation, her works pursue the embodiment of bewitching biological
beauty, whilst manifesting emotional bonds that are boundless in nature. In conjunction with
this intrinsic inspiration, Michelle places her most profound, deep-seated sense of self onto
the canvas, in an attempt to extend to higher realms and explore wider scopes within her
works. Her intrepid depictions are the consequence of perpetual evolution and adaptation, a
process that formed following a short creative course in abstract florals she was gifted one
Mother’s Day.

Electing a high intermix of media and layering, Michelle employs a process highly intuitive in
nature, in which each phase leads to the illumination of the next. Commencing with a
rudimentary wash of colour, adjoined to a contrasting coverage of colouring, these initial
layers provide the work’s foundational complexion. An intermingling of expressive brush
strokes and a catapultian of paint portray the innate sensations of liberation and gratification
that derive from nature’s most uncluttered state. Once these portions are present, they’re
laboured on the canvas into a rendering that characteristically reflects the equilibrium
between the outward world and the innermost landscape. Greatly committed to repeated
practise, as well as persistent trial and error, much of Michelle’s artistic methodology steams
from an acceptance that a great measure of her creative possibilities are yet to be wholly and
entirely realised.