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Stairway to Heaven – Original Painting

£520.00

Stairway to Heaven – An original painting by Cathy Read. Created in England in 2015.

The painting includes a certificate of authenticity.

Framing: The painting is currently unframed, framing will be arranged in white.frame with double mount off white and dark grey.  Please allow up to three weeks for framing. The painting is 40 cm high x 30 cm wide, framed size is approx 58cm high x 48cm wide.

Framed images are for guidance only and may differ slightly from the actual framing.

Care: Display under glass. Keep painting away from moisture, heat and bright lights or direct sunlight

All copyrights are retained by the artist, and the artwork cannot be reproduced without consent from Cathy Read.

Availability: In stock

Stairway to Heaven – Original Painting

About the Image:

Abstract inspired by a carved wooden staircase which had been salvaged and was on display in the Victoria and Albert museum. I couldn’t help think of the song Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

Or so the song goes and kept on going in my head when I saw this staircase in the Victoria and Albert Museum .

I said to my friend “This is going to be a painting one day”,

I was drawn to the contrast of the contemporary glazing with the ancient wooden carving the setting of two opposites together and took this rather dark picture on my phone with no flash. But more than that, the staircase as a metaphor is something that intrigues me. And this one more than most.

This staircase once went somewhere.

It was part of a building. The building is gone now but here it is, incomplete, going nowhere. There are many analogies I could draw:

  • The futility of carving an elaborate path but not paying attention to where it goes.
  • Of living in the shoes of another, following a beautiful pathway created by someone else that ultimately gets you where you don’t want to be.
  • The finality of life, this once went somewhere but now it doesn’t. It ended!
  • Of looking at purpose out of context. This once went somewhere and made sense but now it’s been taken away from its environment and is like a fish out of water.

And now it is this painting.

 
Stairway to Heaven painting is an original painting of a staircase using watercolour and acrylic ink by Cathy Read. The abstract was inspired by a carved wooden staircase which had been salvaged and was on display in the Victoria and Albert museum.
 
Please see linked product if you would like the painting framed. Framing is in white stained wood frame approx 57 x 67cm with a double mount off white over dark grey.

Creation: The painting is on watercolour paper. Cathy draws the lines with masking fluid to a planned arrangement before painting it with a watercolour wash which gets covered with clingfilm. Once this is removed the picture is further developed using acrylic inks which are left to dry before the masking is removed to reveal the final picture.

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