Bishop: full view of the canvas, a symmetrical patterned face on a scarlet ground

BISHOP

70x100cm/28x40"
$5,500.00
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Bishop: full view of the canvas, a symmetrical patterned face on a scarlet ground
  • Bishop: full view of the canvas, a symmetrical patterned face on a scarlet ground
  • Bishop: abstract painting of a loyal, devoted servant figure inspired by the chess piece of the same name
  • Bishop detail: the centre of the face, two long lashed eyes, a blue nose and a pale angular mouth
  • Bishop detail: a red and white paisley mandala above gold triangles, the artist's signature in pink
  • Bishop detail: purple, gold and blue triangles worked with dots, scallops and fine pattern
  • Bishop detail: a black arc edged with gold ornament curving across red, red mandalas below
  • Bishop detail: a red mandala outlined in white above gold triangles of dense hand drawn pattern
  • Bishop detail: a red and black mandala above triangles of blue, pink and gold pattern
  • Bishop hung on a concrete wall in a modern room, above a boucle chair and a low table
  • Bishop standing outdoors on grass in daylight, the full canvas and its red ground visible
  • Bishop detail: a large mandala flower in turquoise and rose on a deep purple ground
  • Bishop detail: the gold crown with its red lotus, ringed by henna style mandalas on scarlet
  • Bishop detail: banded headdress in turquoise and pink above white triangles marked with arrow glyphs
  • Bishop hanging on a dark grey wall above a wooden dining table with black chairs and pendant lights
  • Bishop on a white wall in a living room above a long grey sofa with a low black coffee table
  • Bishop detail: a long lashed eye against scarlet, beside a gold diamond carrying a red lotus motif
  • Bishop detail: a striped arch of turquoise, pink and gold suns above purple flame shapes
  • Bishop detail: the artist's signature and the year 2021 painted in white on the scarlet ground
  • Bishop: full view of the canvas, a symmetrical patterned face on a scarlet ground
  • Bishop: abstract painting of a loyal, devoted servant figure inspired by the chess piece of the same name
  • Bishop detail: the centre of the face, two long lashed eyes, a blue nose and a pale angular mouth
  • Bishop detail: a red and white paisley mandala above gold triangles, the artist's signature in pink
  • Bishop detail: purple, gold and blue triangles worked with dots, scallops and fine pattern
  • Bishop detail: a black arc edged with gold ornament curving across red, red mandalas below
  • Bishop detail: a red mandala outlined in white above gold triangles of dense hand drawn pattern
  • Bishop detail: a red and black mandala above triangles of blue, pink and gold pattern
  • Bishop hung on a concrete wall in a modern room, above a boucle chair and a low table
  • Bishop standing outdoors on grass in daylight, the full canvas and its red ground visible
  • Bishop detail: a large mandala flower in turquoise and rose on a deep purple ground
  • Bishop detail: the gold crown with its red lotus, ringed by henna style mandalas on scarlet
  • Bishop detail: banded headdress in turquoise and pink above white triangles marked with arrow glyphs
  • Bishop hanging on a dark grey wall above a wooden dining table with black chairs and pendant lights
  • Bishop on a white wall in a living room above a long grey sofa with a low black coffee table
  • Bishop detail: a long lashed eye against scarlet, beside a gold diamond carrying a red lotus motif
  • Bishop detail: a striped arch of turquoise, pink and gold suns above purple flame shapes
  • Bishop detail: the artist's signature and the year 2021 painted in white on the scarlet ground
BISHOP

BISHOP

$5,500.00
Size70x100cm/28x40"

About Bishop

"A loyal servant. Near and dear, and an influencer to his queen and king's hearts"

On the board, the bishop never moves in straight lines. He travels on the diagonal, crosses the whole field in a single move, and he is the piece nobody watches until the moment he decides something.

That is the man in this painting. He stands close to power without wanting it for himself. He is the one the queen tells the truth to, and the one the king still listens to after he has stopped listening to everyone else. His influence is quiet. It was built out of years of being right without announcing it, of being in the room without needing to be the reason for it. Loyalty like his is not obedience. It is a choice he makes again every morning.

Look at him long enough and you notice he is watching you back. There is patience in him, and a little amusement, the look of a man who has already thought three moves past the conversation in front of him.

Hang him where decisions get made. A study, an office, a hallway you pass on your way out the door. He is there as a reminder that the quietest counsel in the room is usually the one that changes the outcome.

An artwork from the "Reality Eclipsed" collection

Every person carries a second self, the one who says the thing out loud, who does not shrink, who is not managing anyone else's comfort. Most of us keep that self folded away. The figures in this collection are those selves let out. They are not portraits of people the artist has met. They are what a trait looks like when it stops apologising: strength without permission, loyalty without noise, tenderness that refuses to be mistaken for weakness.

She paints them at full volume, pattern layered on pattern until the background stops behaving and starts answering them. That is where the collection takes its name. Reality does not disappear, it is eclipsed, pushed briefly behind something larger. She hopes whoever lives with one of these works recognises a little of their own hidden self in it, and treats that self more generously.

Product Details

  • Stretched canvas on wooden frame
  • Ready to hang on your wall
  • Includes certificate of authenticity
  • Painted in Sydney, Australia

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