Danielle O'Connor Akiyama | Full Moon Gorse Sky

Danielle O'Connor Akiyama
Full Moon Gorse Sky
Original oil painting

Full Moon Gorse Sky locates O'Connor Akiyama's practice in the natural world with particular precision. The gorse — that most specific of British landscape presences, yellow and sharp-scented, associated with open heathland and moorland edges — appears here under a full moon in a painting that is as much about light as it is about subject. The moon's light on the gorse, the gorse's gold against the night sky: these are the relationships the painting is investigating.

O'Connor Akiyama works in layers, building the luminosity of her surfaces through sustained application of oil paint over time. The result is a depth that photography cannot capture — a sense that the light in the painting is coming from within the canvas rather than being reflected from it. This is the particular quality that oil painting, at its best, achieves.

For collectors in Berkshire, Surrey, and London who spend time in the British landscape, Full Moon Gorse Sky will read as both a painting and a memory: a moment of natural light, held.

Available exclusively through Creed Gallery, Ascot. Private viewings by appointment.

Original oil painting
Certificate of Authenticity