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Lupines at Saint Matthews, 61 x 41 (2024) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
154.94 x 104.14cm (unframed) / 152.4 x 101.6cm (actual image size)
£1,115.09
Artwork description
Lupines at Saint Matthews
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 61 x 41
The lupines come for a few weeks each June, rising out of the roadsides and
meadows of Sugar Hill in dense, improbable columns of violet and rose. At Saint
Matthews, they have gathered at the church's feet in numbers thick enough to
obscure the low fence line and press against the white clapboard siding. The
petals catch the soft, diffuse light of a northern morning and hold it, a cool
brightness against the painted wood. The steeple climbs above the field's
horizon, plain and perpendicular, its white geometry steady against whatever
sky the day has offered.
The air at this elevation carries the faint sweetness of lupine in full flower
and the underlying damp of soil that has only recently thawed. The blossoms are
not delicate up close: each spike is densely packed, the individual florets the
size of a thumbnail, their texture waxy and firm. Below them, the compound
leaves collect the dew and hold it in small beaded pools. It is a loud,
crowded bloom in a quiet place: the church has watched these fields through a
hundred such seasons, and the flowers return without ceremony, indifferent to
their own extravagance.
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 Premium Satin paper. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 10
- Size: 154.94 x 104.14cm (unframed) / 152.4 x 101.6cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Architecture and cityscapes
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Artwork description
Lupines at Saint Matthews
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 61 x 41
The lupines come for a few weeks each June, rising out of the roadsides and
meadows of Sugar Hill in dense, improbable columns of violet and rose. At Saint
Matthews, they have gathered at the church's feet in numbers thick enough to
obscure the low fence line and press against the white clapboard siding. The
petals catch the soft, diffuse light of a northern morning and hold it, a cool
brightness against the painted wood. The steeple climbs above the field's
horizon, plain and perpendicular, its white geometry steady against whatever
sky the day has offered.
The air at this elevation carries the faint sweetness of lupine in full flower
and the underlying damp of soil that has only recently thawed. The blossoms are
not delicate up close: each spike is densely packed, the individual florets the
size of a thumbnail, their texture waxy and firm. Below them, the compound
leaves collect the dew and hold it in small beaded pools. It is a loud,
crowded bloom in a quiet place: the church has watched these fields through a
hundred such seasons, and the flowers return without ceremony, indifferent to
their own extravagance.
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 Premium Satin paper. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 10
- Size: 154.94 x 104.14cm (unframed) / 152.4 x 101.6cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Architecture and cityscapes
