Kate Paul | Black on Black Katharine Dove Artist UK The deep blue ground gives

The deep blue ground gives the white gesture maximum luminosity — the light of the paint catching against the depth of the colour beneath

Graham's Swarovski crystal technique gives the royal subject the material luxury the title demands

Artwork size: 7" x 7" inches (18 x 18 cm)

Midas takes one of the most resonant myths in Western culture — the Phrygian king whose wish that everything he touched would turn to gold was granted and then became his curse — as the subject for a work of contemporary painting

Kate Paul | Black on Black Katharine Dove Artist UK The deep blue ground givesKate Paul Black on Black Original abstract calligraphy Black on Black is Kate Paul's most radical monochromatic proposition a work in which the gestural calligraphic mark and the ground share not merely the same hue but the same colour, differentiated only by the texture and direction of the paint itself. Where White on White invites the viewer into a world of light, Black on Black asks them to look into depth: to find the mark in the darkness, to