Year of creation | 2024 |
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Dimensions | 101 W × 76 H × 4 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | expressionism |
Genre | landscape |
Materials | mixed method, wood |
Type of packaging | cardboard box |
The River's Gilded Journey reflects the timeless journey of water as it carves its narrative into the landscape, forever held in the earth's embrace, a symphony of natural forces in perpetual motion. The gilded ridges hand-sculpted by Tiffani merge into an interplay with the reflective resin surface and its submerged tactile, three-dimensional textures just below the transparent river. Tiffani's work invites the observer to ponder the permanence of nature's artistry juxtaposed against the fleeting moments in which we experience its beauty. All of this is complemented by the gorgeous locally sourced Poplar wood sides that the panel was created on. They add yet another touch of warmth to an already enveloping experience. This painting is part of the "Flowing Forms: The Erosive Dance of Water" collection released this year by Tiffani.
I'm eternally in awe of not just the beauty that exists in nature but the laws that govern that beauty. The same laws that captivate us with a sprawling sunset (something quite large, also beguile us with the magnificence of a nebula (something mind-boggling huge) or with the inner structure of the cells in a leaf (something quite small). There is a beauty that belies itself as chaos all around us. I work in resin for this very reason. As I pour and manipulate the thick liquid resin, for a moment in time I experience, like a fleeting sunset, the beauty that the laws of physics creates on the canvas, just before it disappears and reinvents itself, settling on the final outcome of the painting. As a former surfer, this reminds me of lying on the board in the water and catching a glimpse of a never to be replicated moment where a small wave peaks and crests and water foams about only to disappear. I want to capture moments tied in their core to nature on a canvas. Resin lets me freeze those moments in time.