Dancing Dapples
Original Artwork
Price: £1,200
Medium: Acrylic Mixed Media on Wooden Panel
Dimensions: 61 × 61 x 2cm
Certificate of Authenticity included
Dancing Dapples is a vibrant semi-abstract celebration of the beauty, colour and tranquillity of the natural world. Inspired by a documentary exploring the planet and, in particular, the elegance of flamingos, the painting places a solitary bird within an imagined landscape abundant with water, flowers, butterflies and lush vegetation.
The flamingo becomes a quiet focal point amid a tapestry of intense colour and organic forms, gracefully dipping its beak towards the cool, shallow water. Around it, areas of light appear to dance across the landscape, suggesting the shifting dapples of sunlight that give the painting its title.
Rather than depicting a particular place, the landscape is imagined as a safe and harmonious environment where flora, fauna, water and light coexist. The work captures a moment of stillness within an otherwise energetic composition, reflecting both the vitality of nature and the sense of calm that can be found within it.
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My Process
Dancing Dapples marks the early stages in my exploration of mixed media and vibrant colours. I began experimenting with textured mediums alongside acrylic paint, introducing raised and tactile areas into the surface rather than relying on paint alone.
I built the composition through layers of vibrant colour, allowing some areas to remain loose and abstract while bringing selected elements — particularly the flamingo, butterflies and flowers — into sharper focus. Texture, washes, expressive brushwork and overlapping forms were used to create the densely layered environment, with the blue water providing a cooler contrast to the intense yellows, oranges, pinks and greens above.
This experimentation with surface, texture and different levels of abstraction became an important step in the development of my mixed-media practice and the more layered approach that would later become a significant part of my work.
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