'St Mary's', 2023-24
Name: ‘St Mary’s’, 2023-24
Measurements: canvas height: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas width: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2500. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Looking towards St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Gate Roundabout, St Mary’s Gate, Sheffield - Google maps link
Name: ‘St Mary’s’, 2023-24
Measurements: canvas height: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas width: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2500. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Looking towards St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Gate Roundabout, St Mary’s Gate, Sheffield - Google maps link
Name: ‘St Mary’s’, 2023-24
Measurements: canvas height: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas width: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2500. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Looking towards St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Gate Roundabout, St Mary’s Gate, Sheffield - Google maps link
St Mary's Gate roundabout, Sheffield
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What is it in this painting as I'm painting it that is holding my gaze?
Composition, as well as being just such an evocative and timely image [the reference image was taken 27th December, 2021].
I’m intrigued by :
• The light sitting where the clock face of St Mary's church should be.
• The lights that go up either side of the tree symmetrically on the other side of the image.
• The tree placed at the golden ratio point on the right and the tree placed directly in the centre.
• Both horizontal golden ratio lines are followed. Upper, by the upper lights on either side of the image. Lower, by the rim of the fencing which then flows into the very fine line of shadow in the concrete over the arch of the underpass.
• The swoop of the concrete paths that flow into both the bottom corners.
• That the person's silhouette sits at the point the 3 lines of the underpass meet.
• There's a line from that person up to the clock tower light that mirrors the tree and the lights on the opposite side.
• On the right hand side the area of shadow ends on the horizontal centre line which flows to the centre of the lights on the opposite side.
I am incredibly happy with both the reference image and the emerging painting too. 😊😊
All the images are stills from videos of me working through each stage that makes up the painting. If you want to see the videos pop on over to my Instagram page here - https://www.instagram.com/andycropperart/
