Butterfly Breath
by Amy Timms
£90.00
Artist: Amy Timms
Title: Butterfly Breath
Date: 2011
Dimensions: 350 mm x 460 mm
Medium: Gilcee Print
Edition Size: 50
Details:
This print is a high quality reproduction of a gouache painting on silver birch paper, produced in 2011.
Description:
Butterfly Beat is first of two works in which Amy has based upon the anatomical studies of a red deer’s respiratory organs.
Butterfly Breath is the second of two works studying the respiratory organs of a red deer. In this piece, the central heart from Butterfly Beat has been cut away, enabling the lungs to spread out and breath. This gives them the effect of a pair of butterfly’s wings.
Butterflies flutter, freely around the lung chambers, celebrating their beauty and form. Adorned with lightly tied ribbons, the trachea stands tall, taking in air. The bows echo the shape and colours of the butterflies. As in many of Amy’s works, recurring themes and imagery are explored. In this instance the shape of wings and the freedom that they represent in flight.
Amy’s paintings aim to convey the pure essence or souls of the animals that they represent. Working primarily in bold, flat gouache, the interplay between colour and negative space of her neutral backgrounds is key.
Amy is a Bristol based artist. Originally from Wiltshire, her pastoral upbringing has fuelled her fascination for the natural world. She graduated in 2007 from Falmouth College of Arts with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration. She has exhibited at Chelsea Flower Show 2007, Grotesques 2010 at Antlers Gallery Bristol and The Royal West of England Academy 2011. Her work is on permanent display onboard the Cunard Queen Victoria.