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Christine SoDelft Madrone II (40 x 26 inch cyanotype painting)2023
2023
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The intricate pattern seen in each tree leaf is is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted, not with ink or paint, but with light-sensitive photo emulsion. The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf is a sun print or lensless photograph of tiny plants laid on top of the painted area.
The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the light-sensitive painted silhouette before it’s time. The artist named this ongoing series of botanical paintings which have a fine blue and white pattern “Delft Garden” after the Dutch painted porcelain.
The madrone tree is native to California. Its red branches have a way of twisting and its leaves grow in spiraling clusters almost like flowers. The patterns you see up close inside each leaf are from other native Californian plants like wild cow parsley and coastal woodferns (Dryopteris arguta).
Unframed.
On 100% cotton watercolor paper.
Deckled edges.
Signed on the back.
Ships rolled in a 31 x 6 inch heavy tube.
- Creator:Christine So (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:noPrice: $1,400
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- Gallery Location:Oakland, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2737214420762
Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from her hometown, San Francisco. She is best known for her blue and white cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog. The Foggy Woods series is ever-growing as the artist continually hikes these hills which are often foggy at dawn. She explores radically different ways to use this antique photographic medium with and without out a camera. At times her blue prints look like screen prints. At others like abstract watercolors. Besides printing photographs from negatives, botanicals using entire branches, altering the chemical recipe to obtain novel colors, and creating abstract cyanotypes of deliberate patterns, she also paints images using the light-sensitive solution and prints a pattern within them. These last works she calls “cyanotype paintings”. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the light-sensitive painted silhouette before it’s time. She named her series of botanical paintings which have a fine blue and white pattern “Delft Garden” after the Dutch painted porcelain. Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville), Jumaira Resort, Lux Habitat Sotheby’s International (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco (Salt Lake City) , Mazars Accounting, Limelight Hotel Mammoth (California), MD Anderson Hospital (Houston), Oncology Center, Houston Methodist Hospital.
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