Hidden Shard
One of my smallest artworks, the Hidden Shard painting is a small, intimate moment discovered while walking around London. I realised I could see the Shard in the gap between two buildings. Only for a moment before it was hidden again as I moved on. It’s a feature I love about cities. One of the reasons why it’s so important to look up, down and around wherever you are.
The use of a limited pale colour palette of blue and sepia tones, gives the painting an old photographic feel. The eye drawn off centre by the Shard and surrounding area to the blues and turquoise.
The sky shows characteristic fold lines, like tiny searchlight beams flooding the heavens. There’s texture everywhere in this painting and if you get close enough and more move your head you will catch hints of iridescent colours used during the painting.
Again it’s a painting of contrast, the iconic, Shard, glazed, contemporary minimalist styling besides the old London Victorian architecture full of details and decoration, carved in stone. The windows defined by stone mullions and arches whereas the Shard is one giant window looking in all directions. Looking at the textures there are ripples caused by the cling film process, spots of colour that has bled into others, Tiny moss like encrustations on the building and frost like icicles leaning against the Shard, The domed building seems to have people on the balcony but these are just ornaments put there to impress.
