Martin Guinness
| Artist: | Martin Guinness |
| Title: | Legacy of the Golden Dragon |
| Medium: | Mixed Media |
| Base: | Canvas |
| Year Completed: | 2025 |
| Price - UNFRAMED: | $600 |
| Size - Unframed: | 91cm x 121cm |
| Weight -Unframed: | 3 kg |
| Sale Status: | For Sale via OzArt Finder |
About This Painting:
A vivid field of colours long associated with celebration, vitality, and auspicious fortune in many East and Southeast Asian cultures—forms the ground of this composition. Cloud-like veils of softer peach drift through the surface, suggesting shifting mist or the slow burn of dawn light. Scattered indigo markings recall calligraphic strokes: spontaneous, gestural, and imbued with implied meaning. Across this atmospheric expanse, three raised paths of metallic gold traverse the canvas, textured like ancient terrains or the serpentine course of dragons in festive procession. The gold asserts both physical and symbolic presence—wealth, spiritual elevation, and the sacred warmth of enlightenment.
Inspiration
In Legacy of the Golden Dragon, I draw on an intuitive connection to Oriental colour symbolism—particularly the energy of red and the spiritual resonance of gold. Red, in many Asian traditions, is the colour of happiness, life force, and sacred celebration; gold suggests prosperity, illumination, and a bridge between earthly and celestial realms. The bold textured pathways emerged as a kind of wandering script, as though mapping a journey across shifting cultural landscapes. They might be read as the trace of a dragon’s movement, or as calligraphy without literal language—marking the balance between chaos and intention. With subtle mists and scattered marks, the work evokes the sense of looking through weather, through memory, or through another tradition’s lens.
Enquiry
Legacy of the Golden Dragon by Martin Guinness is available Unframed for $600.
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