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Stable Optimist

Mixed Media, Canvas, Ready to hang

125cm (W) x 125cm (H) x 3.5cm (D)

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Artwork Description

'Stable Optimist ' By George Hall. There is a back story to this work which is written at the end of this description.

This artwork has is created with acrylic paint and metallic gold paint on a photographic print of positive words.

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This artwork is created with:
1. Acrylic Paint
2. Metallic Gold Paint
3. Photographic Printing
4. Polymer Stain and Glaze
5. UV Protective Varnish

Canvas measurements:
125cm x 125cm x 3cm / 50" x 50" x 1.18"

This artwork is highlighted with metallic gold paint. Gold brings abundance, mental balance, and vitality. It helps learning and with the realization of self-potential. It will bring success, happiness, enthusiasm, and power. It will fill your life with comfort, kindness, and magic, making you more attuned to nature and the people around you. So being able to splash gold freely is a wonderful feeling of freedom.

This is a one of a kind artwork, there are no duplicates or prints, though there are others in this series, but they are all completely different from one another. It was created with acrylic graffiti paint pens, the background is a matte photographic print on canvas of the collage newsprint, made up of positive words and quotes, then stained with polymer glazes and finished with 3 coats of UV protective satin varnish, it will not fade in direct sunlight.

Signed on the lower right profile edge as well as a certificate of authenticity signed by myself.

It is an archival canvas and paints, and has UV protected vanish, it will not fade in direct sunlight.

Requires one week for satin finishing and UV protection.

If you would like another version to your size specifications as a commission, please contact me through this on this website.

The Optimist Story (My Story):

At the beginning of 2019 I was going through a really sad time, I was beginning to lose hope in the world and hence becoming easily annoyed and angry.

I decided I didn’t want to be this way, so I did what I always do and that was to start drawing what I wanted life to look like. The reoccurring theme seemed to be love and optimism. So I kept drawing hearts, I think I must of drawn hundreds, all over magazines and newspapers they kept developing and growing and I began to really start loving them and the process. I loved the effect of the background newsprint, but sometimes the words were wrong.

So I research words of positivity and hope. I went through all the google searches and just kept adding to the list. I stopped watching and reading the news, I decided to create my own newspaper with these words. I wanted my heart to go onto words of love and hope. So I printed collages of these great words and started painting my multi-coloured hearts on top.

I noticed that people started smiling at me in the street and I wondered why, then I realised it was because I was walking round smiling, my mode had changed.

More people started contacting me and wanting paintings. I posted the hearts on my Instagram and I got so many orders for these hearts. I call them ‘The Optimist’ because that is was what I had become.

Artist Bio

I live and work in the seaside town of Port Kembla on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. My acrylic and mixed-media paintings are held in private and public collections around the world.

My background includes formal training in figurative art and three decades in international textile and fashion design. These days, I work in my studio seven days a week, exploring the balance between structure and spontaneity and often allowing unexpected marks to guide a painting’s direction.

I draw inspiration from Australia’s natural and urban environments, the colours of my homeland, New Zealand, and my childhood in Fiji. Through my paintings, I explore energy, calm and a sense of play.

A signature feature of my work is a background of printed positive words arranged in a newspaper-like style. These bring texture and messages of hope and optimism to many of my paintings. For other works, I begin with dyed natural canvas, creating depth beneath the painted surface.

From these foundations, I build layers of acrylics, collage and glazes using brushes, sponges and rough-textured towels.

My signature collections include the FUNK, Nature’s Dance, Optimist Heart, Silent Paradise, News and Gradual series.

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GEORGE's studio is in Port Kembla, Australia