46 x 61 cm | 18 x 24 in
Subject: People
Tags:
Sunset,
Neon,
Bathing,
Hot,
Psychedelic,
Icons
Original painting in oil on linen.
"This painting was made as a preparatory study for a larger painting that was shortlisted for a prestigious award in London in 2018. The painting depicts a hippie-like couple standing in the sea bathing. The colour palette makes reference to psychedelia and alludes to the idealism of alternative cultures as well as the notion that the path to creativity lies through the doors of perception."
Ed Saye’s paintings hold the strange beauty of a world still running its rituals after the meaning has shifted. Figures walk, gather, hold small suns in their hands, unaware of how altered the air has become. The colour hums at a frequency between reverence and re-coding - radiant, hyperreal, irresistible - the saturation dial turned just past natural, where colour starts to behave as energy instead of pigment. His work has evolved with rare coherence, each canvas reorganising itself from within, as though the paint were recalibrating to each new atmosphere - the pigment edging toward another register entirely.
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