Minimal Shapes Series #14 by jay stanley Size:M - 50 x 70cm reclining and gazing out to

reclining and gazing out to sea

naturalistic backdrop — its soft blue plumage and alert posture captured with the careful observation that defined nineteenth-century ornithological illustration

where subject matter and brushwork technique are inseparable from philosophical meaning

The composition draws from a tradition of maps that were as much about imagination as geography

graphic colour fields and a confident line that moves between illustration and fine art

Minimal Shapes Series #14 by jay stanley Size:M - 50 x 70cm reclining and gazing out toMinimal Shapes Series #14 continues Jay Stanley's ongoing exploration of reduced geometric form. This portrait format piece arranges a small number of deliberate shapes across a spare ground, allowing light, proportion, and interval to do the compositional work. Where other works in the series are taut and angular, this iteration carries a subtle softness in its spatial arrangement an almost meditative quality that unfolds gradually rather than