Billy Childish U. K., 1959
Stars and Low Sun, 2024
Archival print on paper
Signed and numbered by the artist, lower right on recto
Signed and numbered by the artist, lower right on recto
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200
© Billy Childish
Billy Childish’s 'Stars and Low Sun' connvey the poetic spirit and immediacy that define the artist’s practice. Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with British landscapes, Childish creates an emotive...
Billy Childish’s 'Stars and Low Sun' connvey the poetic spirit and immediacy that define the artist’s practice. Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with British landscapes, Childish creates an emotive atmosphere that invites viewers to contemplate the subtle movements between day and night.
The low sun sets near the horizon, casting long shadows and turning the sky into a tapestry of fading light. Childish’s treatment of the stars is understated yet evocative: glimmers of tiny light hovering above, lending dusk a lyrical ambiguity.
Executed with Childish’s gestural style, the scene resists nostalgia, instead evoking a direct, almost primordial connection to nature. As with the artist’s broader oeuvre, there is a sense of the untamed—a refusal to embellish in favour of expressive mark-making.
This artwork offers collectors a compelling entry point into Childish’s exploration of landscape as a site of memory, solitude, and quiet revelation.
The low sun sets near the horizon, casting long shadows and turning the sky into a tapestry of fading light. Childish’s treatment of the stars is understated yet evocative: glimmers of tiny light hovering above, lending dusk a lyrical ambiguity.
Executed with Childish’s gestural style, the scene resists nostalgia, instead evoking a direct, almost primordial connection to nature. As with the artist’s broader oeuvre, there is a sense of the untamed—a refusal to embellish in favour of expressive mark-making.
This artwork offers collectors a compelling entry point into Childish’s exploration of landscape as a site of memory, solitude, and quiet revelation.
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