$4,950.00
Young Hearts Original Fumage on Bristol Watercolour Paper 400gsm Textured 39cm x 57cm
Maegan’s inspiration: “Along the creek bed, there is always an adventure to be had. It is a place I go for peace and I’ll wander along the banks and over the roots of the old guardians that shade the path. I often think about how many creatures have been here before me, how many years this tree has seen come and go and how many more are yet to pass. This piece represents the chroniclers of the land and all the young hearts that pass the time”.
“Painting with Fire” is the technique of dancing an open flame underneath paper to leave a layer of soot and etching it away with various tools. Sometimes metallics such as copper, gold and silver are interwoven into the artwork. Maegan sketches a composite of the subject as a guideline to manage proportions for accuracy. A flame is then applied from several sources (such as candles, fossil fuels, wood etc.) carbon soot is then layered onto the sketch. Maegan then painstakingly removes layers by etching with various tools including brushes, hand tools and erasers. It is an extremely delicate and lengthy process.
Maegan has a Bachelor of Design Arts with majors in Graphic design and Visual Arts. Having grown up with many animals on a goat farm in rural Queensland she developed a respect for all animal life and observed a significant and worrying decline in our natural world. Her passion for animals and her natural artistic ability has led to her creation of “Painting with Fire”. Working with natural materials and utilising layers of soot from burning candles over her sketches of the animal’s portraits she painstakingly removes layers by etching with various tools. It is a delicate and lengthy process but the resulting animal portrait is well worth it giving each one the voice it truly deserves.
Maegan is an Art Renewal Centre Living artist (USA). She has been a finalist in several prestigious competitions including the Holmes Prize for Realistic Bird Art and Internationally in the Art Renewal Centres 15th ,16th and 17th International Salon Competitions. Three of her originals will be included in the Polaris Archive – 1/7 Time capsules launched to the South Pole of the Moon as part of the Art Renewal Centre and their collaboration with the Lunar Codex, Samuel Peralta and NASA.
Original artwork by Maegan Oberhardt ARC Living Artist.
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