Spanish Gallery - Spring of Life
- wallpaper
- pattern
- memento mori
Spring of life wall paper
It is our second collaboration with StudioMB, and it is always a great joy to work with Stuart Fraser & the team. After the Al Salam Palace Museum in Kuwait, I was now asked to work on The Spanish Gallery memento mori walls. The gallery is the UK's largest collection of 16th and 17th-century Spanish artworks outside London. It includes work by El Greco, Murillo and Velazquez…
the rose
The illustration would be set on the Spring of Life room, a room dedicated to the futility of life, the well known art theme Memento Mori. What a tremendous theme !
Superb yet already faded roses, iris, and carnation, punctuated here and there by spiders and dragonflies.
What do you think ?
the lily
Creating a patterned was also a first for me. And I must say I'm pretty pleased by the result. No weird feeling of static pattern, or hard symmetry. There is three panels with a little variation (bumblebee & petals) to create a bit more movement. Everything find its place quite properly.
This last picture is so dramatic with it's chiaroscuro effect I love it. It almost feels like we are immersed in one of the painting of the gallery.
Photo credit to StudioMB
