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Abstract Emotion
Blue Dust at Four O'Clock
2023 · Oil on canvas · 40 × 30 in (102 × 76 cm)
$5,400
AvailableThe particular colour of a room that has been waiting all afternoon.
- Collection
- Abstract Emotion
- Year
- 2023
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Surface
- Cotton canvas, gallery stretched
- Dimensions
- 40 × 30 in (102 × 76 cm)
- Framing
- Framed in a hand-finished maple floater frame
- Edition
- Original
- Reference
- AG-008
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The Story Behind the Painting
Why this painting exists
An experiment in painting an hour rather than an object. I mixed the blue eleven times before it felt like four o'clock.
Inspiration
Personal memory, the particular light of the American South, and the classical European interiors I studied as a student.
Colour & Symbolism
Blue holds distance and memory. Peach and rose hold the body and the present moment. The deepest maroon is grief, used sparingly and never at the centre.
The Creation Process
Oil on canvas, worked in thin layers over several weeks. The composition shifted more than once before the final resolution.
Artist Reflection
When I stand in front of it now I feel the same quiet I felt the morning it was finished — a little exposed, and glad of it.
Message to the Viewer
I hope you recognise something of your own life in it, even if you cannot name what it is.
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