Every painting on this site exists once. Not in a limited edition of fifty. Once. When somebody buys the original, there is no second one behind it in a drawer, and I cannot make another because I could not make another even if I wanted to.
That last part is worth explaining, because it is a fact about the medium rather than a marketing position.
Why a pastel cannot be repeated
Pastel goes into the tooth of the paper and stays there. There is no undo, so every mark is a decision made once and lived with. A painting is the accumulated record of a few thousand of those decisions, made in an order I could not reconstruct if you paid me to.
I could paint the same subject again. It would be a different painting. Better in places, worse in others, and visibly not the same object.
Look at the background on that one. Those mottled passages happened as they happened. If I painted this truck again tomorrow that background would be different, because it was never planned in the first place.
So what is the print, then
A photograph of the painting, printed well. That is all it claims to be, and I would rather say it plainly than dress it up.
A print gets you the image, the colour, the composition. It does not get you the surface. Stand close to an original and you can see the tooth of the paper holding the pigment, the places where one colour sits on top of another, the small ridge where a stick was pressed harder. A print is flat, because photographs are flat.
For a lot of walls that is completely fine, and prints are cheaper and easier to frame. I sell them because not every wall needs an original and not every budget stretches to one. But I am not going to pretend they are the same thing.
What this means when you are deciding
If a particular painting has been sitting in your head for a while, the original is the one to have, because there is a real chance it will be gone the next time you look. That is not a sales tactic. It is arithmetic. There is one.
If you like the image and you want it on a wall, the print does that job honestly and well.
And if the original has already gone and you wish it had not, tell me. Some pieces I am willing to paint again as a new version at a different size, and that is a commission rather than a copy. A different painting of the same subject, which is the only honest way to do it.
No countdowns
You will not find a timer on this site, or a badge telling you three people are looking at this item. The real scarcity is plain enough without decoration: one painting, one wall, and then it is somewhere else.
Everything available is in the gallery. If you are wondering about glass and spacers before it arrives, that is in the framing notes.
— DawnE