Breakfast | Original Acrylic Still Life, 32.5 x 42cm

An original acrylic still life of three golden empanadas on a dark plate, with a bowl of red sauce beside them, painted in thick expressive strokes on ceiling board. It is a kitchen and dining room painting. Food still life earns its place where people eat, and this one is warm rather than formal, all browns, golds and a deep teal ground that makes the pastry glow. The paint is worked thickly enough to see. The crimped edges of the pastry are built up in ridges you can read across the surface, and the filling is scraped in with broken colour rather than blended, which is what gives it the coarse, appetising texture. The board is a ceiling board panel, a support Nigerian painters use often, and the maker gives the frame depth as 3cm. It is signed and dated 26 in the lower left corner. This is an original, not a print, and there is one of it. The maker gives the artwork size as 32.5 by 42cm. Hang it out of direct sunlight, which fades pigment over time, and dust the surface with a dry soft brush rather than a cloth, which can catch on raised paint.