28 x 42 cm | 11 x 16 in
Subject: People
Tags:
Ink,
People
Original painting in ink on paper.
Original painting in Indian ink on Hahnemuhle paper.
"Signed on reverse side. From a series of studies made during an intense period of activity in 2017 when I was exploring new imagery and subjects to use in paintings. These ink studies were made quickly using loose brushstrokes and plenty of water to imitate watercolour techniques and harness the fluidity of the medium. The images are built up in layers and yet retain a sense of freedom and spontaneity."
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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