Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting by Cristine Balarine
Size: 150 x 100 cm 
Medium: Acrylics, spray paint, watercolour, tempera sticks, ink and pastels on raw canvas
Ready to hang: no, ships rolled and needs to be restretched by your local framer*
Signature: front and verso, also signed Certificate
Year: 2023
Finish: silky varnish with UV protection
Shipping: rolled in tube
Delivery time: 3 – 10 working days (depending on size, customs formalities etc.)
* Shipping extra large formats rolled is safer and more environmentally friendly than shipping ready-to-hang works. The canvas can be easily re-stretched by a framer at your location, which in most cases is even much cheaper than the increased transport costs for a ready-to-hang painting. If you'd like a comparison quote for shipping ready-to-hang please contact me.
 
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ABOUT THE PAINTING:
I've always been fascinated by ruins and nature’s ability to recover once we leave a derelict site alone for some years. 
 
At university I used to make models welding and sticking together rusty old beams and bits and pieces of things which are no longer considered objects, found by the River Thames. As I visit another fascinating spot here in Sicily, I contemplate the damage we make to the environment when building, collecting bits and pieces, nails and old building materials to make marks in my panting, telling a story of an once-important site which today tells a tale of failure dipped in thick asbestos. I reverse-engineer my architectural background, taking shadows of the old building and adorning a page of my visual diary, this painting. As I nail it to the walls, I contemplate nature’s return to this site, in the bushy plants growing everywhere, in the stunning sea view from the site and the absolute silence. I ask myself: is the cost of progress too high, now that we’re suffering the floods, the fires and nature biting back everywhere? 
I find, for now, hope in blue.
 
Link to the process behind this painting:
https://www.cristinebalarineart.com/post/meet-my-new-painting-hope-in-blue-a-piece-about-nature-taking-back-what-s-hers