Inland Pond VERSO by BarbaraHouston ArtStudio Image: Paint and pigment are given agency, an atmospheric outcome capturing a familiar landscape in Newfoundland; painted first in reverse, on the reverse side.
Paint and pigment are given agency, an atmospheric outcome capturing a familiar landscape in Newfoundland; painted first in reverse, on the reverse side.
Inland Pond VERSO by BarbaraHouston ArtStudio Image: VERSO - outline drawing establishes composition, first painting pressing pigment and archival ink through the Belgian linen. Image is the back of the finished painting.
  • BarbaraHouston ArtStudio
  • Inland Pond VERSO
  • Acrylic, archival ink, Japanese graphite on seamed Belgian linen + cotton canvas
  • 36 x 28 x 0.75 in (91.44 x 71.12 x 1.91 cm)
  • Framed: 39.5 x 33.5 x 2 in (100.33 x 85.09 x 5.08 cm)
  • Signature: Barbara Houston BHSTN-Year-Sequence 24786=numerical version of BHSTN 24=2024 10=tenth signed painting completed in the year
  • Inv: 24786-22-36
  • C$3,900
  • Available
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An intimate capture of the inland ponds and environs on Belgian linen, VERSO paintings are first painted in reverse and then restretched and painted a second time. Materiality and rural Newfoundland captures the 'mauzy 'atmospheric quality here on the Bonavista Peninsula.

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