Blue Moon Mermaid
100cm /100cm
Acrylic On Canvas With Shell, Gemstone, Bead & Seaweed Embellishments.
This painting was completed on a blue moon and beginning of the eclipse season in 2017 and sold to a buyer in USA the same year at the end of an eclipse cycle. The mermaid portrait was actually a self portrait from my youth and was one of my most emotionally connected paintings to date. I didn’t put it up for sale and had no inclination to do so until I received an enquiry whilst taking part in an Arts Market in Seaton, Devon. The buyer had seen the painting on my wall when I was recording a live video stream. he said that his girlfriend had seen it on Facebook and had fallen in love with it. He wanted to purchase it for her as a surprise gift. when he said her name I realised she had been the same person who had used the image on her Facebook social group. A friend had told me about it and I had contacted her to let her know the copyright issues but if she wished I would be happy for her to display as long as there was reference to myself. I offered the buyer a copy but he was very keen for the original and put a tempting offer on the table. After a lot and I mean a lot of consideration I agreed to sell but spent a week grieving the painting . It was the first time I realised how much of myself was my art and vice versa.
Purple Moon Mermaid
40cm/40cm
Acrylic mixed media on canvas with glitter, seaweed and shell finish. Another painting inspired by the full moon in 2020.
Stormy Mermaids
40cm/40cm
Acrylic on canvas with glitter finish. This painting was inspired by a period of particularly stormy weather and I liked the idea of mermaids with a bit of character about them.
Mermaid On Rock
40cm/40cm
Acrylic mixed media on canvas with glitter finish. this painting was a small version and portion to the large Mermaids and Dolphins Mural below.
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