Vibrant Abstract Painting: Love Flowing Towards the Light by Surreal Media

From the left-hand side of the canvas, a broad band of thick, grooved paint flows towards the right: tangerine blends into deep red, then magenta and bright turquoise, whilst here and there a hint of lemon yellow glimmers between the stripes. The entire band curves inwards, like a wave about to break, and exactly where it meets the light, everything bursts open in a warm, golden glow full of tiny spatters. If you look closely, you’ll spot a single curling stroke in deep ultramarine at the bottom, which nimbly winds its way through the other colours — a small, almost hidden detail that gives the whole movement just that little bit of extra direction.

For me, the subject of Love lies in that energy: the way in which different, sometimes contrasting colours — warm tangerine set against cool turquoise — nevertheless form a single movement together, without getting in each other’s way. I was thinking of the feeling of something moving towards each other at full speed, not in a forced way, but rather playfully.

The atmosphere is predominantly warm and exuberant on the left, with a cooler hint of turquoise that keeps the whole composition in balance, until everything converges in a dazzling point of light on the right.

This is a digital artwork: the thick layers of paint with their deep ridges are built up to resemble real impasto oil paint, with dramatic side lighting that makes the texture glow, without any physical painting ever having taken place.

In an interior, this piece commands attention on a bare wall in a living room or hall, for those who love colour, movement and a touch of drama in their home. Or take a look at: "Breuklijn in Cadmium", another piece with that same vibrant colour intensity.