"Uneaten Gems" 30x30" Painting
"Uneaten Gems" 30x30" Painting
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This is a 30x30” oil painting on a gallery thick, 1.5” birch wood panel featuring a scattering of sunlit cherries on a creamy white backdrop.
One of my first paintings as a professional artist captured a large, moody scene of cherries in a bowl. That painting, titled “Cherries”, launched my career and so returning to the same subject a few years later but painting cherries scattered on a bright tabletop, introducing light and shadow in an alternate way was a touchstone on how far I’ve come and how far there is yet to go. Cherry skins reflect some of the brightest highlights, interacting with the shiny surfaces of the fruits around them, those dynamic glints and the dancing shadows made this piece incredibly satisfying to capture in paint.
On the back:
- The frame has a sawtooth picture hanger installed on the back, making the piece immediately ready to hang.
- The painting's original palette paper that was used to paint the scene is glued to the back of the panel, serving as an added memento to the artwork.
- The back of the painting panel is signed and dated.
The painting comes with a signed and dated certificate of authenticity.
A signature look of my work is how the painting wraps around the edges of the panel by a 1/2”, the remaining depth was left the blonde birch wood. The entire piece, edges included, is coated in a satin varnish.
The photo referenced for this painting was curated and captured by the artist, Hannah Kilby.
Details
Details
All original paintings come carefully packaged with a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity and a wire or sawtooth hanger is installed on the back making the painting immediately ready for hanging.
Care Guide
Care Guide
Paintings get dusty from time to time. I recommend making a micro-fibre cloth lightly damp with clean water, and very gently running it over the area(s) in question.
Shipping
Shipping
All paintings are carefully wrapped and shipped with the utmost care.
In some cases, depending on the location the painting is being shipped to and the size of the painting in question, I will need to reach out to my client to make additional arrangements for shipping and corresponding costs. If you have any questions or would like to discuss shipping in advance of purchase, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at hello@hannahmichellestudios.com or through my contact page.
Celebrate the vivacity of everyday life
Still-life scenes became a massive interest of mine while I attended the Ottawa School of Art from 2020-2021 for their portfolio certificate program. Surrounded by so many talented peers and challenged by class projects, I was increasingly inspired to push my comfort zone out of landscapes and into something new.
The more I dabbled, starting with sketches, then creating my “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” Series, then moving straight into what would become the Sustenance Series, I was more enamoured with the brilliance of mundane objects. Have you ever tried to count the number of shades in a banana peel? Thought about the play of light across and through the curvature of a cocktail glass? As I thought more abundantly about my regular surroundings, more colours burst forth with shapes full of artistic drama.
The grandeur of a sunset will likely always entice me to paint it, however there is more majesty that exists in our world beyond the snatches of travel adventures and take-our-breath-away vistas, because OF COURSE those moments should be painted, that’s a total no-brainer. The scenes I’ve been increasingly fascinated with are the more domestic, quiet beauties in our daily lives. They’re found in the backs of our fridges and pantries, in a can of No Name olives and calling the painting “Pitted & Nameless”. The subtle colour influences in the shadow cast by a cherry, the transparency of a gummy worm moments before it’s devoured and dubbed “dinner”.
We often measure the passage of time in big milestones: birthdays, anniversaries, vacations. This has a fast-forward effect on our lives, diminishing our daily experiences to mere blips. In my still life paintings I like to hit the pause button and encourage the measurement of our lives to include the little, vivacious moments over the span of our days.