Michael Price

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Resurrection Adventures No. 7, Annunciation Celebrating the Mystery of Life. 2020,

50.4''x 64.1''. Mineral pigments and gold leaf. Not for Sale

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The central theme of my figurative work explores the psychological relationship between the imagination and the phenomenal world through the archetypal images of myths and religions. The imagination ignites the archetypes which are embodied in all spiritual and numinous experiences. The paintings and relief works are executed with natural colour, hand-ground from rocks and crystals. I have published this research in the two volume work “Renaissance Mysteries”. The “chromatic” figure and nude transcend the restrictions of realism. The reliefs consist of life-size figures which emerge from the picture plane highlighting the tension between illusion and a physical presence. Triptychs and four panel works investigate the limits and function of a “poetic” narrative.