Angel Painting: Gold leaf and acrylic give an icon-like quality to this figure

Within Daniel in the Lions’ Den is also an angel painting…..There was much debate about how to depict the angel. The final stages of this painting involved quite a lot of changes, and included adding the angel with his golden wings (gold leaf protected by shellac varnish)……now that feels better! Daniel needed his angel. This painting is for a collector in Singapore and by emails back and forth we’ve been making decisions about how the painting develops. I find this way of working very rewarding, because art can be quite a lonely pursuit at times, so working in a collaborative way can be great.

You can see how the painting has changed over the past few weeks by looking at my previous post, “On the Theme of Daniel.”