GATE X “Reclaimed”

Oil on wood panel /wood construction 26” x 22” x 5”

Although this seem like quite a departure from what I normally do, really its not. This is part of a series of works that deal with gates and trees. This one was done for a charity event and it was auctioned off a few weeks ago.

The leaf image is oil glazes over graphite, the surround (which is not a frame but an central part of the image), was constructed and carved from bass wood, after which it is painted with metallic paint, rusted with acid and then pastels where worked into the surface to give realistic illation of rusted iron This is quite a long process (100 hours) because it’s a true three dimensional piece the photo doesn’t really do it justice, apart from the fisheye distortion you don’t get a real feeling of it being 3d, but work reasonably well, at least well enough to get the idea.

Thanks to all for looking

Nimra /\\\