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Gold Inside Me - Black Painting (2018) Original Mixed-media Painting by Bohdan Svyrydov
110 x 150 x 2cm (unframed)
£2,248.25
Original artwork description
Gold Inside Me - Black Painting is a large black and gold mixed-media painting on canvas, created with acrylic and imitation gold gilding. This contemporary artwork combines a deep black background, expressive white line drawing, abstract faces, eyes, symbolic figures, white paint splatters and textured gold areas, making it a powerful statement piece for a modern living room, hallway, office, studio, loft interior or darker contemporary space.
The painting is built as a dense field of faces, signs and layered movement. White lines travel across the black surface, forming mask-like heads, eyes, mouths, hands, arrows, small figures and coded symbols. The composition feels crowded and alive, like a wall of inner voices, memories and hidden characters appearing at the same time.
Gold appears throughout the painting as irregular patches, splashes and fragments beneath and between the white drawing. It does not look decorative only. It feels like something buried inside the dark surface: a hidden source of value, warmth, memory or inner light. The white lines reveal the figures, while the gold suggests what lies deeper under them.
This is not a traditional portrait and not a pure abstract painting. The work sits between figurative abstraction, symbolic drawing, street-art inspired mark-making and contemporary expression. The contrast of black, white and metallic gold gives the painting strong graphic presence, while the layered surface invites slow looking and discovery of smaller details.
This one-of-a-kind large mixed-media painting works well as a bold contemporary artwork above a sofa, in a hallway, office, studio, gallery wall, loft space or modern interior with strong contrast. Sold unframed. Signed on the back.
Materials used:
Acrylic, imitation gold gilding
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 110 x 150 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Gold Inside Me - Black Painting is a large black and gold mixed-media painting on canvas, created with acrylic and imitation gold gilding. This contemporary artwork combines a deep black background, expressive white line drawing, abstract faces, eyes, symbolic figures, white paint splatters and textured gold areas, making it a powerful statement piece for a modern living room, hallway, office, studio, loft interior or darker contemporary space.
The painting is built as a dense field of faces, signs and layered movement. White lines travel across the black surface, forming mask-like heads, eyes, mouths, hands, arrows, small figures and coded symbols. The composition feels crowded and alive, like a wall of inner voices, memories and hidden characters appearing at the same time.
Gold appears throughout the painting as irregular patches, splashes and fragments beneath and between the white drawing. It does not look decorative only. It feels like something buried inside the dark surface: a hidden source of value, warmth, memory or inner light. The white lines reveal the figures, while the gold suggests what lies deeper under them.
This is not a traditional portrait and not a pure abstract painting. The work sits between figurative abstraction, symbolic drawing, street-art inspired mark-making and contemporary expression. The contrast of black, white and metallic gold gives the painting strong graphic presence, while the layered surface invites slow looking and discovery of smaller details.
This one-of-a-kind large mixed-media painting works well as a bold contemporary artwork above a sofa, in a hallway, office, studio, gallery wall, loft space or modern interior with strong contrast. Sold unframed. Signed on the back.
Materials used:
Acrylic, imitation gold gilding
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 110 x 150 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits


















