Hand Finished Edition 'Sussex Pond' - Giclée Fine Art prints
Sussex Pond
Part of a series which explores identity.
My art studio is down a mud track, off a tiny Wealden country road. As well as it being home to my studio, it is also home to heritage cows, a trickling pond, ducks and an Oast house.
I find extreme comfort in the wildlife and foliage of the pond. The light was beginning to rise from the east and gave a strong contrast between the field of wild flowers and the rich blue of the water in the pond.
I initially titled this painting Dew Pond; dew ponds are small, round ponds sited in hollows, made by digging a pit and lining it with clay. They're found in a few dry, hilly places, like the South Downs, where there's no water running down the hillsides because the rock underneath the surface is mostly chalk and full of small openings and all the rain water drains away underground. The soil around my studio is not chalk and does not drain easily, it is clay, thick and muddy, holding the water as firmly as a glass. If the pond near my studio isn't a dew pond, then what is it and what shall I name the painting of the pond?
I have been told about an old English recipe called Sussex Pond Pudding and giggling with delight as I felt that this was a much more fitting name for my painting. Sussex Pond was born.
Printed with archival inks on 308gsm cotton rag Hahnemuhle Paper, hand finished.
Each print includes a white border.
A3 unframed
- Paper size 29.5 x 41.8cm
- Image size 20.8 x 29.8cm
- Printed signature of artist
- unlimited amount of editions
A2 unframed
- Paper size 39.5 x 56.5 cm
- Image size 31.8 x 46 cm
- Signed by artist
- Edition of 30
A2 framed
- Paper size 39.5 x 56.5 cm
- Image size 31.8 x 46 cm
- Signed by artist
- Edition of 30
- Pale ash wood frame with edge mounts, all framed under gallery glass (TruVu)
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