Title: Exodus
Artist: Monique Sakellarios
Medium & Materials: Oil on copper panel
Dimensions: 12" x 24"
Overview
Serving as a striking companion piece to Genesis, Exodus presents an ethereal abstract landscape filled with morning light, atmospheric softness, and copper-warmed luminosity. The wide-format composition suggests a coastal marsh or rolling valley floor as dawn fog begins to dissolve into day.
Description
In Exodus, Monique Sakellarios creates a softly luminous abstract landscape across an expansive 12" x 24" copper panel. The composition avoids hard structural edges, allowing the surface to become a fluid study of light, air, and delicate texture. Transparent passages of oil reveal the naturally warm metallic substrate beneath, giving the painting a quiet internal glow.
The lower left and base of the panel are anchored by layered violet, plum, mauve, and lavender tones that suggest a damp early-morning pasture or marsh floor. From there, the composition opens upward and to the right into a spacious field of pastel light. Impasto strokes of pale peach, rose pink, ivory, and soft cream catch ambient light, adding physical presence and movement across the surface.
Small accents of fiery orange and mint green appear near the lower center, adding a lively counterpoint to the softer surrounding palette. Sakellarios’s loose, confident brushwork blends cool violet shadow with sun-warmed haze, creating a peaceful yet visually engaging work suited to a fine art collection.
Style & Composition
- Artistic Style: Expressionistic Impressionism with elements of lyrical tonalism.
- Composition Type: Wide horizontal landscape format built around a dynamic left-to-right transition, moving from dense violet shadow on the left into an airy field of pink, peach, and cream light on the right.
- Focal Point: The luminous central clearing, where soft mint greens and pale yellows break through the surrounding purple brushwork.
- Color Palette: Plummy mauves, lavenders, and violets are balanced by warm peach pinks, champagne creams, bright orange accents, and soft sage green.
- Lighting & Atmosphere: Gentle, diffused morning light filters through coastal haze, creating a peaceful, fresh, and dreamlike mood with subtle metallic warmth.
Application & Stylistic Technique
- Brushwork / Mark-Making: Loose, gestural, and tactile. Thick impasto blocks create physical ridges, while soft circular dry-brushing blends the airy cloudlike passages.
- Layering & Depth: Translucent oil glazes allow the copper surface to act as an internal light source, while thicker white and peach ridges project forward into the viewing plane.
- Tools Used: Heavy-body oil paint on a rigid, prepared copper panel, applied with flat bristle brushes and soft blending mops to layer pigment while softening hard transitions.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping / Pickup: Shipping is available, with items securely packaged in professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally; complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
