Mixed media examples

Decay 1996 Tony Rawlins

114 x 92cm on canvas

Oils, pastels, charcoal, acrylics, gouache, pencil, lime, talc, earth, paper, hessian, PVC glue, seeds, acid, aluminium oxide, iron oxide, enamels, iron fillings.

This piece was intended to be anything but archival quality. It is deliberately designed to rust and decay over time and reveal more layers as areas of the work peel and flake off with time. There are over 40 layers of illustration and each reveals another thought process and delves deeper and deeper into the mindset of the artist at the moment of creation.