Kate Breakey
Horny Toad
2021

Name: Horny Toad
Brand: Kate Breakey
Price: 1250 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and emotional comprehension which are sometimes incompatible, and distills them into a visual language of images where they can be contemplated. Making images of these things is a natural extension of being fascinated, touched, or intrigued by them. This process of seeing, and recording transforms me. It is how I express wonder and love, a form of dedication. It is also a record of my life and my desire to connect myself to all other things, the acknowledgment of a search for an explanation, for meaning and significance, and a primal longing to grasp things that are unknowable. I begin with a silver photographic image, evidence. Then I paint this in many transparent layers of oil paint and pencil. If I am lucky the media combine, and become enmeshed, a curious union of what was real with my own painterly exaggerations and embellishments, so I can show how beautiful it all is — the light, the form, the texture, and color, because I am a sensualist and this is my deepest pleasure, my lovely addiction. Each of these pieces of artwork is silver gelatin photographs that have been selenium toned, archival dry mounted on 4-ply museum rag board then hand-colored with many layers of oil paint and colored pencils. This means that no two are exactly alike, and because of the nature of the process, each one is unique.

Creator:

Kate Breakey (1957, Australian)

Creation Year:

2021

Dimensions:

Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

Framed w/unique vintage frame & Optium Museum PlexiPrice: $1,550

Medium:

Pastel,Pencil,Archival Pigment

Movement & Style:

Contemporary