Paul Mowbray Artist Craftsman

‘Gift of earth 2’, 2014, Painted gessoed panel with incised and relief sculpture.

Takes its form from a small section of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. I wanted to adopt the two hands, as a relief sculpture effectively pulling the flat plain of the original ceiling into three dimensional form. It occurred to me whilst first sculpting the hands in clay that I should contrast between God and Man by way of making one hand in relief from the surface and the other via incising into the surface effectively formed from the negative space or poetically, from the void. The hands I then cast from my clay originals using a plaster resin. As illustrated, the substrate surface was then cubed and finally painted with an extensive array of earth pigments. Some of the earth pigments were available as top quality oil paints, others I personally bound in oil, resins, and egg tempera.

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