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‘Fragmented Freedom – Blue’ is a is a stunning giclee with silkscreen glaze, by the incredibly talented Louise McNaught. Each print in this beautiful edition is embellished by hand in gold leaf, through a long and delicate process, making each print entirely personal and unique, and also offers the opportunity to have your print personalized either for yourself or to be given as the perfect gift for a wedding, christmas or birthday. This piece is focuses on the preciousness of our natural world, and how the most beautiful things may disappear due to the intervention of man and technology, symbolised dripping paint. The zebra looks as though it is unravelling, fading away. The paint is rising up like the zebra is disappearing into the ether, adding a sense of the numinous.... The original painting was created on a square canvas to echo the shape of man. “Zebras are a metaphor for something that is 'literal', when you are looking at something in 'black and white', and as beasts they are sure footed and poised. To see such a strong, iconic and steadfast animal in this vulnerable manner challenges our perceptions about how we treat nature and the environment....”
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