Zen Memento Mori - Japanese incense, tea bowl, stone and plumbago flower. Giclee fine art print.
Zen-inspired still life oil painting, incorporating Japanese incense, tea bowl, stone and plumbago flower. Presented as a giclee fine art print.
Memento Mori is a traditional still life painting designed to remind the viewer of the fleeting nature of life - in Western art it usually incorporates wilting flowers or on-the-edge fruit, and perhaps a skull, as a reminder that life is finite. I chose a Zen theme, in this case incense because once lit, it burns for a set time and is then extinguished. Flowers bloom for a shorter time than we do, whereas we are outlasted by stone.
June 2022.
Original artwork painted on aluminium composite panel (ACM), 9"x6". Perfect for a meditation space, it projects tranquility and simplicity.
Zen-inspired still life oil painting, incorporating Japanese incense, tea bowl, stone and plumbago flower. Presented as a giclee fine art print.
Memento Mori is a traditional still life painting designed to remind the viewer of the fleeting nature of life - in Western art it usually incorporates wilting flowers or on-the-edge fruit, and perhaps a skull, as a reminder that life is finite. I chose a Zen theme, in this case incense because once lit, it burns for a set time and is then extinguished. Flowers bloom for a shorter time than we do, whereas we are outlasted by stone.
June 2022.
Original artwork painted on aluminium composite panel (ACM), 9"x6". Perfect for a meditation space, it projects tranquility and simplicity.
Zen-inspired still life oil painting, incorporating Japanese incense, tea bowl, stone and plumbago flower. Presented as a giclee fine art print.
Memento Mori is a traditional still life painting designed to remind the viewer of the fleeting nature of life - in Western art it usually incorporates wilting flowers or on-the-edge fruit, and perhaps a skull, as a reminder that life is finite. I chose a Zen theme, in this case incense because once lit, it burns for a set time and is then extinguished. Flowers bloom for a shorter time than we do, whereas we are outlasted by stone.
June 2022.
Original artwork painted on aluminium composite panel (ACM), 9"x6". Perfect for a meditation space, it projects tranquility and simplicity.
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.