Surreal Mixed Media Paintings Gallery
This Surreal Mixed Media Paintings Gallery is mostly composed of works done on paper using pastel and ink. Variations occur where collage, pencil and other media are included in the works.
Most paintings in this gallery are for sale.
Feel free to ring me on H: (02) 5698 5284 or email me (go to contact page) for offers or questions.
Limited edition prints are available on request.
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- An Evil Birth $325 Mixed Media on Paper 13 * 20 cm
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- Celebration $890 Pastel and Ink on Paper 50 * 70 cm
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- Chase $755 Mixed Media on Paper 70 * 50 cm
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- Children’s Games $425 Pastel and Ink on Paper 70 * 50 cm
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- Picassoesque Horse’s Head and Friends $775 Mixed Media on Paper 70 * 50 cm
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- Sentinel $225 Mixed Media on Paper 19 * 14 cm
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- On The Rim $125 Mixed Media on Paper 21 * 15 cm
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- Serenity $160 Mixed Media on Paper 19 * 15 cm
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- Happy Organ Donors $545 Mixed Media on Paper 70 * 50 cm
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- He Nose $525 Mixed Media on Paper 70 * 50 cm
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- Isometric Pressure $155 Mixed Media on Paper 11 * 17 cm
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- The Prey $260 Mixed Media on Paper 24 * 19 cm
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- Organic Construction $185 Mixed Media on Paper 12 *8 cm
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- Auto Organism 1 $240 Mixed Media on Pape 38 * 28 cm
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- Celestial Swathe $180 Oil on Canvas 29.5 * 41.5 cm
Surreal Mixed Media Paintings
These Surreal Mixed Media Paintings are closer to abstract art than the oil paintings. They are mostly improvised. The surrealism derives from the playing with space and dream-like quality of the work; and the imagery here is slightly darker than their oil counterparts. Some paintings are still fantastic art (especially relating to colour) but few are pure fantasy art.
I don’t like the new vogue of dark surreal paintings as they are more like horror, and I don’t see the point in dwelling on such negative imagery, no matter how well painted it is.
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Surrealist art paintings.
Surreal art paintings should evoke the workings of the subconscious mind. They should either remind one of dreams dreamt or create a dreamlike state where the viewer can see things which may only be suggested by the forms in the surrealist paintings. In contrast an abstract art gallery would contain paintings which do not evoke suggested imagery. Purely non-representative art has another agenda altogether.
Fantastic art or fantasy art is another type of art once again. It has a stronger tendency toward the figurative and is more like the work adorning science fiction and fantasy book covers. Surreal fantasy art falls somewhere between fantasy and surreal art – there will be elements of both types of art in it. True Surrealism art does not have to be dark. It does not have to contain clear imagery. It can be whimsical and comical and may even be able to unlock secrets within the mind of the viewer.
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