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Crazy Diamond Giclée print, from £195 for a small size (16” x 16”) ranging to £1,095 for an extra large (40” x 40”). From Gallery Beautiful, The Courts, The Walk, Holt, Bradford On Avon; www.gallerybeautiful.com
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From tuxedos and gowns to wallpaper and cushions, every design you see at Gallery Beautiful is created by owner and fine artist Sonya Rothwell. Her luxury art, fashion and interiors emporium showcases painted and limited-edition collections. This Crazy Diamond giclée print caught our eye especially. It weaves entangled figures with dancing lines and kaleidoscopic colour. “I strip my subjects bare, leaving behind only their essence,” says Sonya. “I love that only imperfect diamonds are colourful; inspired by phosphorescent people in my life that sparkle, Crazy Diamonds celebrates our imperfection, our darkness and light, our multifarious, complex, colourful and brilliant individuality. Amid our positivity, passion and exuberance there’s balance – our light is countered, after all there is a ‘dark side of the moon’. Human nature is complex and imperfect; we have many facets. To emphasis this equilibrium, I blended warm, soft hues with cold, acidic colours that merge, forming grey areas and blurred boundaries. The paint meanders like rivers forging their way, as we do. Melding tones collect in murky pools of dirty shades tinged with fluorescence and brilliant light.” Visits to the showroom, situated within the elegant drawing rooms of a stunning Grade-II listed National Trust manor house, are by appointment only.
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