Jonjo Elliott | Pink Climber Collectible Fine Art The Slopes Are Always A

The Slopes Are Always A Good Idea

The title does what all the best titles do: it reframes something familiar in a way that makes it strange and interesting again

they become the subject of love — or rather

Ian H Watkins' mixed media technique builds the surface of the painting with the same care that still water builds its reflections: layer by layer

The gestural black silhouette painted over the red and white octagonal surface creates a visual collision between two of the most immediately legible sign systems in contemporary culture: the traffic sign that demands obedience

Jonjo Elliott | Pink Climber Collectible Fine Art The Slopes Are Always AJonjo Elliott Pink Climber Original acrylic painting Pink Climber is among Jonjo Elliott's most formally striking works a large scale original in which the climbing plant becomes a vehicle for an investigation of growth, persistence, and the particular beauty of things that reach upward against the force of gravity. The pink palette gives the botanical subject an unexpected warmth and vibrancy, the climber rendered with the atmospheric painterly