Original artwork description:

'Cycle of Life' is a large, abstract collage painting that will be a striking statement piece in any room. The painting explores our contamination of the oceans with plastic. Current estimates show that 5 trillion plastic bags are used annual across the globe. In just one week the US produces enough discarded plastic bottles to circulate the planet five times. Many of these end up in our oceans threatening marine life. The impact on marine life is immensurable; vast amounts of plastics swirl around on the surface of the ocean, birds get entangled by plastic debris and underneath the ocean surface broken down plastic particles are digested by sea animals.

The deep ultramine blue and in this contemporary colour field painting was mixed with artist pigments. The pigments were mixed to a beautiful matte, chalk like finish. Dyed china paper has been carefully layered to add depth as well as lightness to the work.

Artist pigments, paper, acrylic, charcoal, pencil and wax pastels.

The deep edges of the gallery wrapped canvas were painted in a complementary blue wash. Hooks and cord are attached at the back of the canvas; it is ready for hanging.

The painting comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.

Please note that the image of the painting in a home interior is for demonstration purposes and is not to scale.

Materials used:

Pigments, acrylics, wax pastels, charcoal and pencil

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