Original artwork description:
A4 acrylic painting on board.
It was a fiercely hot afternoon as I passed through the frankly underwhelming gates to Guillotière cemetery. The sun sapped every ounce of energy my legs possessed and still asked for more, each step a leaden weight.
The imposing walls of the cemetery cut off the racket of the dusty summer road and left only the idling of a lone grey vehicle to interrupt the sudden peace. A mechanical heartbeat in a dead place.
Green remerged. Crows and jackdaws spoke in their graveyard tongues and the effort to move forward was eased. I stopped in the shadow of a twisted oak, in the shade of which I found the subject of this painting, a face of quiet grief, hands betraying a deeper hurt within.
The blue stone fit perfectly to a salmon background, with scatterings of detail scrawled across its surface, fragments of a story long forgotten, from a tomb empty of flowers.
Acrylic and pencil on A4 panel.
Materials used:
Acrylic and pencil on board
Tags:
#affordable paintings #french landscape #pink wall art #blue portrait #portrait of a lady #cemetery artwork #graveyard painting #tombstone art #classical sculpture woman #lyon france paintingFeatured by our Editors:
Née 1869 (2024)
Acrylic painting
by Paul Ward
1 Artist Reviews
£512.87
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 21 x 30 x 1cm (unframed) / 21 x 30cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Original artwork description
A4 acrylic painting on board.
It was a fiercely hot afternoon as I passed through the frankly underwhelming gates to Guillotière cemetery. The sun sapped every ounce of energy my legs possessed and still asked for more, each step a leaden weight.
The imposing walls of the cemetery cut off the racket of the dusty summer road and left only the idling of a lone grey vehicle to interrupt the sudden peace. A mechanical heartbeat in a dead place.
Green remerged. Crows and jackdaws spoke in their graveyard tongues and the effort to move forward was eased. I stopped in the shadow of a twisted oak, in the shade of which I found the subject of this painting, a face of quiet grief, hands betraying a deeper hurt within.
The blue stone fit perfectly to a salmon background, with scatterings of detail scrawled across its surface, fragments of a story long forgotten, from a tomb empty of flowers.
Acrylic and pencil on A4 panel.
Materials used:
Acrylic and pencil on board
Tags:
#affordable paintings #french landscape #pink wall art #blue portrait #portrait of a lady #cemetery artwork #graveyard painting #tombstone art #classical sculpture woman #lyon france paintingFeatured by our Editors:
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This artwork is sold by Paul Ward from France
