Prelude #1 is an original, highly textured mixed-media painting created through John Worth’s immersive process of repeated walks through the South Downs. The work blends gestural mark-making with sanding, scraping and layering of linen and canvas, resulting in a richly tactile surface and a patina suggestive of time, memory and atmospheric change. Also available as a limited edition fine art print.
Five horizontal lines—referencing the musical stave—hover within fields of deep blue, grey and muted white. This interplay between landscape rhythms and musical structures sits at the heart of the Prelude series.
Medium: Mixed media with layered linen on canvas, finished with oil paint.
Dimensions: 61 × 61 cm
Series: Prelude
Finish: Wax varnish for enhanced tactility
Prelude #1 is an original, highly textured mixed-media painting created through John Worth’s immersive process of repeated walks through the South Downs. The work blends gestural mark-making with sanding, scraping and layering of linen and canvas, resulting in a richly tactile surface and a patina suggestive of time, memory and atmospheric change. Also available as a limited edition fine art print.
Five horizontal lines—referencing the musical stave—hover within fields of deep blue, grey and muted white. This interplay between landscape rhythms and musical structures sits at the heart of the Prelude series.
Medium: Mixed media with layered linen on canvas, finished with oil paint.
Dimensions: 61 × 61 cm
Series: Prelude
Finish: Wax varnish for enhanced tactility
