This painting belongs to my ongoing Mycenae series, a relatively recent body of work on unstretched (loose) canvas searching for larger scales, textural, experimental mark making, and a freer, more gestural painting language. The Mycenae series was born during the pandemic, and relates to a search for freedom and space which reality did not allow at the time. These pieces are created on unstretched canvas and can be displayed as they are, hanging like a tapestry from a horizontal pole (provided with the painting). Alternatively, these works can be stretched on a 200x150 cm wooden stretcher. This service can be provided upon request by a professional framer for around £400 (2023 London prices) prior to shipping, or the painting can also be shipped rolled up in a shipping tube and stretched on site [Please enquire for details of these options].

Miguel Sopena

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I am an artist and photographer originally from València, Spain, but now based in Croydon, South London. I trained as a figurative painter but my practice currently encompasses abstraction as well as figuration. In my abstract practice, I am very interested in the material properties of the painting medium, and I often work in heavy oil impasto to create surface textures on my canvases in which markmaking and the painter's hand are very visible. Themes explored in my abstract work include memory, emotion, and the passage of time. Colour and composition are fundamental in my creative process.