CREATION
'Ambition Bites the Nails of Success' marks an entrepreneur's midway point between daring and worrying. Red for danger, red for passion, red for the heat at the epicentre of the risk-taker's role. I borrowed the title from 'The Fly' by U2.
I used local stone from a nearby quarry to cast the face and I wanted it to reflect the texture of the room too. Interestingly, the shadows produced some quite plant-like forms when inverted. The nearby roofs seen through the window set the domestic scene a little but also quietly and darkly symbolise ambition.
CLOSEUP
To see the fine stoney textural detail of this work (especially the nose and face), go to the web address below, where I've loaded a 10 x 5 inch detail shot: www.saatchionline.com/art/Assemblage-Collage-Painting-Ambition-Bites-the-Nails-of-Success-Entrepreneur-Series-Detail/325784/1382804. Just cut and paste this address into your browser address bar to view it.
MATERIALS
This digital collage is printed onto Hahnemuhle Photorag, an acid-free 100% cotton-based heavy art paper with a fibrous finish, guaranteed to archival standards. It's supplied un-mounted, so you can frame as you wish.
OPTIONAL FRAMING AND PROTECTION
If you wish, the work can be protected with a matt acrylic seal, extending its life and protecting it from UV (extra $46). Further, if you prefer a ready-to-hang work, I can have it professionally mounted on a modern aluminium substrait, completely air-sealed behind perspex, protecting the work from scuffs or damage, further extending its archival life and supply a wall-fixing subframe. My London framers are top quality. This costs an extra $559. To order this, simply message me via Saatchi, and I will revise the total price, deliveries and contract on this page accordingly before you buy.
ENTREPRENEUR SERIES
This work is part of the Entrepreneur series, my homage to risk takers in small businesses, made largely in the winter of 2011/12. I love entrepreneurs, they're very much the unsung heroes of our culture. I wanted to portray their personal reality in a special series - the risks they take, their dedication, their worries, their drive. Not the hype, not the celebrity-based TV shows with their binary win or lose games, but the steady, hard, daring work that is building a business.
Many entreprenuers have an unglamorous existence, like the early inventors in their drafty sheds and candle-lit-rooms – today they're in industrial estates and soul-less offices. To me, they're all hereos, whether they fail or succeed – they're what makes our economy, our culture, our country flourish.
