Cape Farm Houses. Giclee fine art print.
One of the routes I can take to the office passes through very pretty farmland. En route you stumble upon these little houses nestled in a grove of majestic trees. I think they're the homes of the farm staff and laborers. It always struck me how nicely they were placed, sheltered by the big trees and set slightly lower than the land. I caught this shot in the early afternoon, what appealed to me was the way the trees frame the houses behind with their shade. The fence posts and little track out front add interest to a simple rural setting.
Almost all of the original was palette knife work, minor brushwork to smooth some edges and textures. It's much larger than my usual panels, and I decided at the outset to paint much more loosely than I usually do.
June 2022.
Original painting oil on MDF panel, 60cm x 40cm / 24" x 16".
One of the routes I can take to the office passes through very pretty farmland. En route you stumble upon these little houses nestled in a grove of majestic trees. I think they're the homes of the farm staff and laborers. It always struck me how nicely they were placed, sheltered by the big trees and set slightly lower than the land. I caught this shot in the early afternoon, what appealed to me was the way the trees frame the houses behind with their shade. The fence posts and little track out front add interest to a simple rural setting.
Almost all of the original was palette knife work, minor brushwork to smooth some edges and textures. It's much larger than my usual panels, and I decided at the outset to paint much more loosely than I usually do.
June 2022.
Original painting oil on MDF panel, 60cm x 40cm / 24" x 16".
One of the routes I can take to the office passes through very pretty farmland. En route you stumble upon these little houses nestled in a grove of majestic trees. I think they're the homes of the farm staff and laborers. It always struck me how nicely they were placed, sheltered by the big trees and set slightly lower than the land. I caught this shot in the early afternoon, what appealed to me was the way the trees frame the houses behind with their shade. The fence posts and little track out front add interest to a simple rural setting.
Almost all of the original was palette knife work, minor brushwork to smooth some edges and textures. It's much larger than my usual panels, and I decided at the outset to paint much more loosely than I usually do.
June 2022.
Original painting oil on MDF panel, 60cm x 40cm / 24" x 16".
Prints are scaled to various standard US frame sizes, e.g. 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 28x20, and 36x24 (all inches). Square print sizes are 12x12, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, and 36x36 (all inches). The print itself is smaller than this to include a border of 1 to 2 inches depending on the print size. When the original is an odd proportion, we fill the frame with the image until the first border is touched. In other words, you might have wider vertical or horizontal borders. When the horizontal borders are wider, we might move the image up a little so that the lower one is wider than the upper, this is a popular setting.
All of my prints are professionally rendered to archival standards on 310gm, 100% cotton paper from Germany, with a gently textured surface. This paper is free of optical brightening agents (OBAs). They are printed in the latest generation Epson Ultrachrome archival pigment inks. This is the ink-set that started the pigment print revolution and twenty years on continues to be the leader in terms of lightfastness, colour gamut and D-max. I inspect each print personally to ensure print quality. Each print is titled, signed and dated by me, and will be packed in glassine paper and cardboard tubing for sizes 36x24 to 20x16, or glassine with cardboard protection for the smaller sizes 14x11 and 10x8.