Acrylic on linen, ready to hang.
Signed on the back.
This artwork comes with an external frame
The perfect unique gift, this is an original one off, lovely small abstract painting on linen, framed and ready to hang on your wall.
The dramatic dark and light contrast in this painting create an otherworldly feel. This one has a wonderfully textured surface with many undulations and subtle movement from the layers in the underpainting. This artwork has a splash of colour but maintains it's minimalist elegance and a sense movement, calm and simplicity.
‘Bioluminous Tideline Dwellers I’ continues with my fascination and joy inspired microscopic-worlds, biology and sea-life, exploring the most miniscule fragments of the universe. The circular organic motifs and patterns allude to cellular life forms, dainty aquatic-life and to the visceral otherworldliness of the building blocks of life like cells, amoeba, and molecules and as the title suggests, bioluminescent sea-life. The circles can be viewed as miniscule cell life just as easily as a dark underwater scene with drifting jellyfish or bioluminescent organisms passing by. The aim was to create something universal, sublime and beautiful yet also possessing a feeling of fragility and tranquillity.
”I feel like I am gently floating like jelly-fish” is a lovely comment I so often receive from this series.
The palette reflects nature and is inspired by the mini-worlds discovered in rock pools and coral reefs in particular to the Basalt beaches around the southern coast of Australia where I grew up. In my dreams and memories, the black basalt rocks of these beach’s create a sharp contrast to the barnacle growths and wildly coloured algae’s and seaweeds of the area.
Recently it has become important to make paintings that talk about the current wellness of our oceans and waterways. I have started adding tiny fragments of plastic, (sourced from years of beach combing), to my paintings. These tiny plastic bits were destined to become Nano-plastics and do horrendous damage in our eco-systems on a macro & microscopic scale. I crush the plastic pieces and stick them into/onto my paintings where they disrupt the smoothness of the paint and to conceptually reflect the current health of our oceans and waterways.
Ultimately the paintings are about our sense of awe and wonder at nature and the miraculous building blocks of all life.
What I enjoy most about my paintings is they make people smile with a sense of wonderment and feelings of happiness as well as giving their walls style and finesse with a spot of otherworldly nature for years to come.
This is one is a mini series of paintings that look stunning hanging together. The others are coming soon Keep a look-out on my other listings.
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ALL PAINTINGS ARE VARNISHED with Professional Quality Artists Varnish, once they have been photographed. This gives a protective surface and an exquisite sheen that really makes the colours powerful & eye-catching.
The painting is on beautiful linen wrapped around traditional wooden stretcher bars complete with SHADOW BOX FRAMING in sustainable Oak that is sealed and ready to put on your wall with hanging wire on back.
Painting is signed and titled verso.
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Please also NOTE if you are in my area you can message me via Bluethumb and book a studio visit to view the artworks in real life before you purchase. And buy via Bluethumb and take home on the spot.
My studio is in the Bayside area of Melbourne, Victoria. And coming soon... I will have a second studio open on Phillip Island, Victoria.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jacquelyn Stephens is a Melbourne based artist who has been successfully exhibiting her paintings for over 20 years since completing a BFA in Painting at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts. She has gained an extensive knowledge of Art, quality art materials, techniques and theory from working closely within the arts industries and in her own art practice. Jacquelyn works full time from her studio on the Melbourne fringe. She has had several successful solo and group exhibitions in commercial galleries and artists run spaces. Her paintings can be seen in many media publications and are held in private collections worldwide. Many of the key themes in her work have been informed by her interest in water, nature, science, the environment and the domain of medicine.
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Jacquelyn is more than happy to create a unique painting for your wall.
ART COMMISSION FEEDBACK
‘I wanted to let you know that ‘Bioluminous Storm Surge III’ arrived safely this afternoon.
I cannot tell you how much I love it. It is ethereal and mesmerising and exquisite. I’ve attached a couple of photos of where it is now hanging. I am completely lost in it!
Thank you so, so much for this beautiful piece’.
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