Gold Leaf Painting Frame:Linen white A still pool of water

A still pool of water curves through the foreground

It is a breathtaking summer sunset captured at its most generous

with patchwork fields and gentle hills fading into a misty distance

The result feels less like a picture of a leaf and more like a relief cast in metal

Gold Leaf Painting Frame:Linen white A still pool of waterThis vertical abstract is a field of pure gilding, where sheets of gold leaf have been layered, torn and burnished into a luminous expanse. Brighter ribbons of light run down the centre while the edges fall away into shadowed, mottled patches, and fine scratches and creases catch the eye like veins of ore. The effect is wholly tactile, suggesting a gilded wall weathered by time, or sunlight trapped beneath beaten metal. It glows from within rather