The step (2026) Original Oil Painting by Rory Mitchell

Communing with our ancestors in a world away from pixels!
'The step' strikes a fragile balance between technical proficiency and anatomical incompetence. It is the painting's faults that help provide an animation to the piece: the childishly rendered toes describe an emotional tension that is rooted in both joyous excitement and of fraught desperation.
The painting can also be viewed as either a comically irreverent piece or as a monumental statement. It is this awkward middle ground that can be so engaging: an uncertainty and ambiguity that cries for further investigation and deeper contemplation.

Materials used:

Oils

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40 x 40 x 2cm (unframed) / 40 x 40cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits

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