Higher Than the Sun
£3,950
Original – Acrylics, metal pigments, sand, beeswax and resin on linen, 90cm x 125cm x 4cm
Higher Than the Sun is a large artwork that creates a bold statement.
It forms part of my Sunsets Collection – created in response to the fabulous sunsets of St Ives and elsewhere in Cornwall.
Higher than the Sun is an abstract meditation on Cornwall’s luminous shorelines and golden sunsets. A celestial glow sits at its centre—a moment when sea and sky dissolve into radiance and the ordinary becomes briefly transcendent.
The title, taken from a Primal Scream song, suggests an ascent beyond the visible world, and that sense of elevation is echoed in the materials themselves. Salvaged sand and copper fragments are embedded in the surface, grounding the painting’s ethereal light in the textures and histories of the land. Each grain recalls the shoreline; each shard of copper carries traces of industry and transformation.
The work moves between earth and sky, material and memory. Its golden hues evoke warmth, divinity, and the fleeting brilliance of dusk, while the rough inclusions insist on the persistence of matter, place, and time—geological, industrial, and human.
Abstract yet resonant with landscape, luminous yet grounded, the painting holds these tensions in balance. It becomes not just a depiction of a sunset but a reflection on how light, matter, and memory converge—how the most ephemeral of moments can be made enduring, and how salvaged fragments of the earth can rise into something that feels, in every sense, higher than the sun.
The work can be hung using the hangings attached, or can be hung direct to the wall on screws or nails.
If you would like more photos of this work to really get a feel for its detail and texture, please contact me.
