This is an original, one off, abstract painting on canvas ready to hang on your beautiful wall.
This unique artwork belongs to my ‘Life Enlarged’ series and explores the tiny minutiae of life and objects, what is real but cannot be seen with our normal sight.
This painting belongs to my ‘Life Enlarged’ series and explores the tiny minutiae of life and objects, what is real but cannot be seen with our normal sight. In this series I enlarged particles of cloth to reveal the grid-like patterns created from the fabric weave. Using my materials and my mark making quite primitively I worked to break up the formality of the grid pattern to give it the feeling of light and being weightless, immaterial. Repeating the gestural mark making over and over in layers and layers I sought to form a kind of vibration, rhythm and dance across the surface. But surprisingly along the way I found that the Subtle folds and waves in the cloth gave the image a feeling of being weightless and floating almost like fishing nets drifting in the ebb and flow of the ocean. Something fragile, dainty but also a little mysterious and seems to relate well to my aquatic paintings too. I aimed for the painting to have a boundless shimmer of light and air. The textural deep reds have a vibrant energy that would warm up any room.
My paintings are inspired by microscopic other worlds. Particle physics, pulsating atoms, cell growth, minuscule amoebas and of course I can never escape the otherworldliness of underwater sea life. I grew in and by the sea at Flinders. Ultimately the paintings are about our sense of awe and wonder at these miraculous building blocks of life. This painting reflects on unseen particle beauty.
What I enjoy most about my paintings is they make people smile with a sense of wonderment and joy as well as giving their walls a splash of colour and interest for years to come.
ALL PAINTINGS ARE VARNISHED with Professional Quality Artists Varnish, once they have been photographed. This gives a protective surface and an exquisite sheen that really makes the colours powerful & eye-catching.
The painting is on canvas wrapped around traditional wooden stretcher bars with edges that are a smart 3.5cm deep out from your wall.
The edges are cleaned, staple free and painted a colour to compliment this painting.
Ready to put on your wall with hanging device on the back.
Painting is signed and titled verso.
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Please feel free to look at my other paintings and I so hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I love making them.
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Some interior images created by and courtesy of iartview app and me.
Please note that Artworks displayed in rooms are for the purpose of illustration only and I try to get them to scale but they are not always exact. Be sure to check the dimensions for paintings actual size.
About the Artist
Jacquelyn Stephens is an Australian artist who has been successfully exhibiting her paintings for over 20 years since completing a BFA in Painting at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts. She has gained an extensive knowledge of Art, art materials, techniques and theory from working closely within the arts industries and in her own art practice. Jacquelyn works full time from her studio on the Melbourne fringe. She has had several successful solo and group exhibitions in commercial galleries and artists run spaces. Her paintings can be seen in many media publications and are held in private collections worldwide. Many of the key themes in her work have been informed by her interest in water, nature, science and the domain of medicine.
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