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The Blue Hour

2021 · Oil on canvas · 44 × 34 in (112 × 86 cm)

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The painting that taught me what my palette was.

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Collection
Private Collection
Year
2021
Medium
Oil on canvas
Surface
Cotton canvas, gallery stretched
Dimensions
44 × 34 in (112 × 86 cm)
Framing
Unframed; floater frame in antique gold available on request
Edition
Original
Reference
AG-017

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The Story Behind the Painting

Why this painting exists

This one stays in the studio. Everything I have made since begins somewhere inside it.

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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