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Sophia Milligan'Piercing Shafts'. Botanical nature tropical green blue leaf sky abstract2018
2018
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'Piercing Shafts'
Original artwork, framed ready to hang
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Yucca leaves: lances and swords, flashing shafts of sunlight through the piercing forms, a dance of loyalty and protection. The painting captures an essence of the ephemeral and the enduring: a fleeting moment wrapped in ancient symbolism. For thousands of years floriography, the symbolic language of plants and flowers, has been a means of cryptological communication across cultures.
'Piercing Shafts' is from an evolving body of work titled 'Elemental' in which Sophia employs her unique style of working using the four elements of nature. "It is a balancing act of control and freedom; of discipline and guidance, whilst simultaneously relinquishing all authority and throwing the odds to the winds, to chance encounters and the unexpected. The physical plein air process of creating this painting captures the tangible moment when the primary forces of sunlight and the winds of time are frozen into being: A painting scratched and scarred by the caress of stems and leaves, then to be washed, bathed, reveled: tactile memories, intrinsically embedded".
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Mixed media on watercolour paper. Unique cyanotype photogram with vibrant colours of richly layered acrylic ink and poetry inscribed in pencil.
Signed, dated and titled in pencil to the lower right corner
This original artwork comes with a hand signed Certificate of Authenticity
58.5 x 41.5cm / 23 x 16.3 inches
(Framed 60.5 x 78 cm / 23.8 x 30.7 inches)
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About The Artist
Sophia Milligan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, exploring discourses on permanence & evanescence; the eternal, cyclical absolutes of birth & death; motherhood & childhood; and ancient immutable connections. With resonating ripples of intuition and instinct Sophia illuminates the presence of the ordinary, creating moments of sublime present.
'Born among the wild cliffs and tempestuous seas of west Cornwall, I grew with the intimate details in the twisting lanes and the intense changing light throughout the turbulent seasons. I formed a primordial connection with a deep instinctual sense of being part of the natural narrative, and wherever in the world I may be, this connectivity underpins my practice. Like the wind sculpted hawthorns and sensual coves of weather worn granite, I have been shaped by the powerful energy entwined in this ancient raw environment.’
‘We are the stories of the journeys that came before. I weave into my work the tales of transitory circumstance; of struggle and survival; of forms and textures holding records of evolutionary millennia. I paint, I draw: with marks, mixtures, photography, words; the raw earth; the restless oceans; the whispered breeze. I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within, giving subtleties of existence a pause for contemplation. There is beauty in such poignant breaths. All moments are significant, every pebble of now forms the vast mountain of yesterday, and the great realm of tomorrow's possibilities'.
Sophia has a 1st class honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts and World History, and a Masters Degree in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work is held in international private collections, and exhibitions of her interactive, immersive installation, photography and mixed media works include 'Penwith Gallery' St. Ives; 'Tabula Rasa', London; 'Superlative', Plymouth; 'Transition', Newlyn; The Eden Project, Cornwall; The European Parliament, Brussels; Kew Gardens, London; and 'The Cameraless Film Festival', Chicago.
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Modern . Abstract . Conceptual . Contemporary . Yucca . Desert . Leaf . Leaves . Tropical . Still Life . Blue . Green . Olive .
- Creator:Sophia Milligan (1980, British)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 30.71 in (78 cm)Width: 23.82 in (60.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Penzance, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU158229430292
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