Umbrella Cities or distant horizons

or distant horizons

Pattern flows in my works are highly influenced by my cultural heritage and decades long figure studies of historical frescoes and murals in spiritual locations from my birth country Sri Lanka

Technique ~ Reduction prints are created by the repeated carving

84cm x 53cm

Signed and framed

Umbrella Cities or distant horizons'Umbrella' is one of an ongoing series of affordable, fine art prints, made from studio debris sketches, cutouts, bits of photography and other materials that contribute to Darke's paintings. By assembling these varied pieces directly into the scanner, Freddie makes playful, loose and spontaneous collages that only live on as complete images once in printed form. There, is, therefore no "original artwork". Scraps of private source material gain a new