Wild Ground – Contemporary Original Art

£495.00

It brings that quality of ancient, unapologetic aliveness into the room, a reminder that the most powerful thing you can be is simply, entirely, what you already are.

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Wild Ground – Contemporary Original Art

This painting burns. Across a wide, low panoramic canvas, a fellside moves through deep burnt orange, russet and dark red, colours that have the quality of bracken in late autumn or iron in the earth, ancient, mineral, alive with their own heat. Dark trees press into the lower ground in deep green and black, roots implied rather than stated, and rocky outcrops anchor the lower right with a solidity that feels geological rather than composed. Above the ridge line, hills roll away into a pale grey sky, unhurried and vast.

The wildness here is not in the marks but in the colour, a wildness that has been here longer than any of us, that belongs to the land rather than to any moment of making. Wild Ground doesn’t claim space the way some paintings do, it simply occupies it, fully and without question, the way this landscape has always occupied its own ground. Burnt orange doesn’t ask permission to be that vivid. The dark trees don’t apologise for pressing in. Everything here is exactly, completely itself. Hung in your home across its full panoramic width, it brings that quality of ancient, unapologetic aliveness into the room, a reminder that the most powerful thing you can be is simply, entirely, what you already are.

Mixed media on paper.

Paper size 31.88″ x 10.63″ ( 81cm x 27cm)

230gsm paper

Framed with a white wooden frame.

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