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Lupine Field, Whitefield, Maine, 43 x 29 (2024) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
£593.11
Artwork description
Lupine Field, Whitefield, Maine
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The lupines come up all at once in a Maine June, and for two short weeks a plain meadow in Whitefield turns into something closer to a tide. Spires of pink and violet lean together across the field, thick at the foreground and thinning toward the tree line, each stalk holding its color a little differently than the one beside it. The air is still cool and smells of grass and damp earth, the kind of morning that has not yet decided whether it will warm. There is no drama here, only abundance, a meadow doing the one extravagant thing it does before the season moves on.
Stand in it long enough and the field stops reading as a single sweep of color and resolves into thousands of separate plants, each one a small vertical event. The light is soft and even, the petals faintly translucent where it passes through them. Lupine does not last. It blooms hard, sets seed, and is gone by July, which is the whole reason to stop and look. This is early summer at its briefest and most generous, held still for as long as the print survives.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.RAF PRO-1100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
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Artwork description
Lupine Field, Whitefield, Maine
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The lupines come up all at once in a Maine June, and for two short weeks a plain meadow in Whitefield turns into something closer to a tide. Spires of pink and violet lean together across the field, thick at the foreground and thinning toward the tree line, each stalk holding its color a little differently than the one beside it. The air is still cool and smells of grass and damp earth, the kind of morning that has not yet decided whether it will warm. There is no drama here, only abundance, a meadow doing the one extravagant thing it does before the season moves on.
Stand in it long enough and the field stops reading as a single sweep of color and resolves into thousands of separate plants, each one a small vertical event. The light is soft and even, the petals faintly translucent where it passes through them. Lupine does not last. It blooms hard, sets seed, and is gone by July, which is the whole reason to stop and look. This is early summer at its briefest and most generous, held still for as long as the print survives.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.RAF PRO-1100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
