Dancing Fates
Artwork details: etching, edition of 18 prints, 16 x 10.8 inches (41 x 27 cm), 2011.
This etching is particularly striking - the masks and the cloth are what one first sees, but the black is a deep velvety black, in which a surprising amount of very dark detail can be seen.
Unusually for me, there is not really a story behind this one. The composition started off as an arrangement of dancing nudes. The masks went on because that was not enough of a picture for me, and then the cloth ran through them because I didn't want them completely naked, but I was so taken with the outlines of the figures I also didn't want to clothe them. Of course, with the final treatment that this etching got, one cannot really see the much of the outlines with which I was so taken, but I re-used the composition in a painting I called 'Gilded Lilies' in which the figures have no cloth, but wear a collection of unlikely items of half-clothes that, again, were intended to add to the composition without going very far to cover the figures.
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Etchings: handmade prints
This image is an original print, strictly limited to only 18 prints (17 still available).
These images are printed by inking-up a handmade printing plate and are printed by hand, so there will be variations in tone from print to print. Some of the etchings in a print run also vary in colour. If you'd like more information about the particular prints of this image that I have available please contact me.
Title: Dancing Fates
Media: etching, edition of 18 prints,
Image size: 16 x 10.8 inches (41 x 27 cm), not including frame dimensions
Frame: unframed
£ 165.00 (plus shipping), subject to availability
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