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 is an important visionary early career artist - attuned to the collective unconscious with almost prophetic sensitivity, the way we realise retrospectively the best artists always have been.
His work has evolved with rare coherence since graduating in 2009. Now we stand in the world he’s been describing to us. Figures moving through liminal light - half asleep or wide awake - new dawn or an apocalypse? Players caught between scripts. Some running the old rituals, unaware of how profoundly the ground has shifted. Others quietly sitting alone with the trees. The colour hums between reverence and recoding, hyperreal, radiant - the saturation turned just past natural, where pigment behaves as energy. This momentous threshold, held in liminal light.
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