Painting by Phil Went 22 Artwork Sold

Escaping Camellia

Oil, Canvas, Ready to hang

9.8in (W) x 9.8in (H) x 1.4in (D)

Certificate of Authenticity Included
$490

Artwork Description

Having fun playing with light and a simple trompe l'oeil effect. The camellia cutting is trying to escape being put into the waiting vase by jumping out of the frame.

Spent quite some time setting up the light and finding a frame that I could use as a model, and leaving the camellia until everything else was done as it doesn't last long without some water.

Signed by attaching an RFID tag on the rear readable from the front with a mobile or tablet. Also has a partial thumbprint across tag and support in burnt umber.

Artist Bio

Phil Went is a full time artist living in the Blue Mountains, specialising in figurative and still-life oil painting. Phil previously worked in Information Technology prior to taking up studies of classical drawing and painting techniques, after being inspired by classical Dutch portrait and still life artists.

Phil has been a finalist in a major realist drawing and painting prizes such as the Alice Bale and Kenneth Jack Memorial Award as well as being a finalist in the Percival Portrait Prize, Blue Mountains Portraits, Mudgee Portrait Prize and the National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize.