Solar Eclipse of Thales

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Medium Mixed Media, Canvas, Ready to hang
Dimensions 91cm (W) x 121cm (H) x 1.5cm (D)
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Artwork Description

The eclipse of Thales was a solar eclipse that was, according to The Histories of Herodotus, accurately predicted by the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus. If Herodotus' account is accurate, this eclipse is the earliest recorded as being known in advance of its occurrence.

The textured black area represents the moon, the plane black the sky and the gold the rays of the sun showing from behind the moon.

Artist Bio

Athena’s practice moves between modern minimalist abstraction and bold, naïve landscapes—works driven by confident colour and distilled form. Shapes become anchors, fields of pigment become space, and composition does the talking: pared back, but never quiet.

She tends to work just outside the spotlight. With a foundation in the creative arts and a distinctly multi-disciplined mind, Athena is always chasing new techniques, materials, and ways of seeing. Step into her studio and you’ll find more than paint—sculpture in progress, textiles and ceramics, sketchbooks of illustration—an ecosystem of making where ideas migrate from one medium to the next.

At the heart of her work is a devotion to looking backward in order to move forward. Athena studies how ancient makers observed the world and the universe—how they tried to name the unknowable, to map wonder into meaning. Because what we call science now, once lived as magic.