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Strata
Strata is a painting series built from dense horizontal bands of color — intricate fields of lines that vary in width, hue, and intensity, layered across the canvas until they form a kind of chromatic record. Each work reads almost geologically, as if color had been deposited in thin sediments and then exposed in cross-section, a horizontal archive of pigment held in suspension.

The series takes its starting point from Gerhard Richter's Strip paintings, where digital slicing and reordering of color produces an optical density that hovers between mechanical and painterly. It extends that conversation into the chromatic precision of Bridget Riley, the rhythmic horizontals of Sean Scully, the saturated band paintings of Daniel Buren, and the quiet structural logic of Agnes Martin — artists for whom line, repetition, and interval carry the weight of the work.

Each painting is built on canvas at 140×100 cm in a horizontal format, with the lines running the full long axis. The works are mixed media — acrylic paint applied through hand-cut plastic line sheets used as stencils, the cutouts shifted a few millimeters with each pass to build up the bands by hand. The effect borrows from the visual language of screen printing while remaining entirely manual: each line carries small inconsistencies, edges that breathe, and subtle overlaps where one pass meets the next. The bands themselves vary widely in thickness, from hairline to broad, and shift across the surface in irregular sequences — no two paintings sharing the same chromatic logic. Some works hold tight to a single tonal family; others stretch across the full register, juxtaposing soft neutrals with high-saturation accents. Close-up, the eye picks out individual lines and the slight tremor of the hand; at distance, the bands blur into a single shimmering field.

Strata is a series about accumulation — color as deposit, line as record, and the quiet density that builds when many small decisions are laid one beside the other.


Shipping:
The work is delivered without a frame (professional packaging, rolled in a tube). it can easily be restretched by a professional or on your own, this is also cheaper then the otherwise increased cost of shipping when sending paintings stretched

The measurements indicated are those of the painting stretched and mounted on a frame (The actual
measurements of the canvas are larger to allow it to be mounted on a frame 2-4 cm thick.


Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress.