Milk MADE

'Milk MADE' merges elements from famous works by the American artist Andrew Wyeth (an art hero of mine) and the Dutch 17th-century painter Jan Vermeer (a super art hero of mine). In combining these works a completely new narrative became possible. The subject is now about how Vermeer might well have worked with the technology available in his time and how I have worked with the technology available to me centuries later. The story is also about how long we look we might look at a painting and what we see when we look. Vermeer painted the Milkmaid pouring milk from a jug into a dish - perhaps the only 'sound' in the painting. Wyeth painted the interior and view to the cattle... providing the context for telling a new tale. Where to look and what to see... - a red circle has been placed over the line of milk exiting the jug - the same milk laps over the edge f the gently overflowing sink - the milk repeats in a reflection on the pale hanging on the right-hand wall - appearing again in a reflection (repeat of The Milkmaid painting) on top of the water/milk in the sink - and finally, it appears in the projected image from the camera obscura... the like of which Vermeer probably used to closely observe his subject when making a painting. The work is called Milk MADE because it isn't specifically about the Milkmaid. My artworks can be printed on a variety of materials and have the potential to be produced in a range of sizes, including large scale production. I have 1000+ artworks in my portfolio - the majority were made in the past 4 years. Many can be viewed on my website www.coldwellandcoldwell.co.uk My artworks appear in Galleries, Corporate and Private Spaces, used as Illustrations for Printed and Digital Media applications (Books, Magazines, Advertising and Web) - Commissions Considered