Vale Noctis - Aetherwake - XXL

Aetherwake 2026 No Reserve
For sale without frame or stretcher
Author: Vale Noctis
Original and unique work 1/1
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Character of the work
Aetherwake presents a calm, mountainous landscape unfolding onto a wide expanse of water. In the foreground, a gilded-sailed sailing ship dominates, accompanied by additional vessels approaching the viewer. Above the scene, the moon appears, and high in the sky a flock of birds adds movement and lightness.
The combination of cool blues with the intense gold of light, reflections on the water, and dark mountain silhouettes creates an atmosphere of a peaceful, almost fairy-tale journey. The artwork’s characteristic fragmentary structure makes the landscape shift into a more abstract form in places.
Approaching sailing ships, open space, and the contrast between moonlight and sunset light may evoke associations with travel, freedom, return, or encounter. The painting, however, does not dictate a single narrative—it leaves these meanings open, allowing the viewer to find their own story and interpretation within it.
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Technique and materials
The work is created on high-quality CANVAS canvas, 100% cotton, 360 g/m². It arose from an authorial process combining digital creation, composition, image editing, and work with light, color, and detail.
The creative process also employs AI-based tools as aids to artistic work, as well as professional tools for digital composition, editing, layering, and post-production.
Digital technologies, including AI, are part of the contemporary artistic toolkit. The final composition is the result of an author's selection, composition, editing, and multi-stage processing of the image.
The work is sold without a frame or plaque (blejtramu).
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Dimensions
Work format: 120 × 80 cm or 80 × 120 cm.
The canvas includes a 5 cm white margin on each side, making the total dimensions 130 × 90 cm or 90 × 130 cm.
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Authenticity
Original and unique work 1/1, sold directly by the artist.
A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) accompanies the work, confirming its authenticity and unique character.
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Safe shipping
Due to the size of the artwork, the canvas is shipped without a frame, carefully rolled and secured in a professional protective tube.
This packaging method allows safe transport of large-format canvas, minimizing the risk of mechanical damage, pressure, dirt, or accidental impacts during transit. After receipt, the work can be prepared for stretching on a canvas or custom framing.
After dispatch, the buyer receives a tracking number.
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Collections
Vale Noctis’s works are created as original 1/1 pieces and reach private collections of people interested in contemporary art and authorial, mood-driven compositions.
The oeuvre covers a variety of themes—from seascapes and sailing ships, through mysterious portals, architecture, and monumental spaces, to portraits, figures, and abstract structures. The diversity of subjects is united by a characteristic atmosphere of light and shadow, golden accents, and spaces that leave room for individual interpretation.
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About the artist
Vale Noctis creates contemporary, moody paintings in which light, space, nature, architecture, and human experience converge into authorial, multi-layered compositions.
His works feature, among others, landscapes, the sea, sailing ships, mountains, architecture, portals, geometric forms, faces, figures, and abstract structures. These motifs do not form a closed catalog—his work remains open to new topics, directions, and ways of building an image.
The distinctive pairing of light and shadow, golden accents, deep tones, reflections, and space gives the works a recognizable atmosphere. An important element of the artist’s work is the tension between reality and imagination—between what can be recognized and what remains open to individual interpretation.
In the artistic process, contemporary digital tools are used, including AI as a supportive tool, as well as tools for digital composition, editing, working with layers, color, light, and detail. These technologies are part of the artist’s workshop, enabling the development and precise realization of an original vision while maintaining control over composition, visual direction, and the final character of the work.
Instagram: @valenoctis.art