A Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea, 2024180 x 180 x 4.5cmSign in to view price
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Material
acrylic on canvas
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
This vibrant contemporary artwork features an abstract composition of pastel-hued figures and playful, organic shapes. The central motif is a swirling, sun-like shape surrounded by dancing, intertwined nude figures, creating a sense of energetic movement and joyful celebration. The artist employs a unique blending of colors and textures, utilizing both flat and sculptural elements to construct a visually captivating and imaginative scene. The work appears to explore themes of human connection, spirituality, and the celebration of the human form, reflecting the artist's unique artistic vision and style. ...
Wendell Gladstone is a painter who works with acrylic and gesso to create texturally rich canvases. Applying paint like a collagist, Gladstone works in his signature palette of warm ochres and ambers, pastel greens and blush pinks to craft enticing dreamscapes. Pre-Raphaelite figures with long flowing hair populate his paintings, languishing in fields or peering through windows. The works possess a deep sense of mysticism and romanticism with emotive signifiers such as melting candles, fallen petals and tear droplets continually surfacing. Influences from Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites filter into his illustrative register and there’s an undeniable magical realist strain within his oeuvre. His characters could easily be plucked from the pages of an Angela Carter or a Gabriel García Márquez’s novel.Surreal paintings emerge from this rich mixing of sources, leading viewers down the various psychological turns within Gladstone’s sombre yet alluring realm. ...
