Title: Desire

Year Created: 2003

Medium: Painting - Oil on loose canvas

Width: 1,220 mm

Height: 760 mm

Price: £ 1,499 (Original - unframed)

Description:
Man's desire is for the woman; sensual, erotic and passionate. Woman's desire is for the desire of man; intimacy and possession of his soul.

This beautiful painting of Amanda depicts both aspects of such desire, as she uses a more surreptitious eroticism and sensuality in her pose, with the ruffled covers suggesting a desperate, unbridled writhing passion within.

To quote Shakespeare: "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

After all, desire is an appetite, craving for something unattainable, particularly sexual.

In selection of this pose for Amanda, her physique has been exploited to the maximum extent possible and all aspects of her body language have been adjusted specifically to tease the imagination of the viewer. Rear lighting has been used to create deep shadows and  enhance mood and atmosphere, emphasised by the lustrously folded covers on the settee. The background and the floor have been minimised so as not to distract.

Oil paint has been used throughout, on a stretched canvas, in a single coat and all wet on wet, mixing on the canvas to create seamless blending effects and the very fine detail.

It's a large, sensual and very dramatic, moody and atmospheric painting that would not look out of place as a feature in any location.

Please Contact myself for more information, or if you would like to purchase it. Obviously, the quality of the original, figurative fine art nude oil painting is much better than displayed here, though if you wish to make a closer inspection, please let me know of any specific area you're interested in and I'll e mail a higher resolution image to you.