“The Atomic Lighthouse” artwork is inspired by a real lighthouse.
The Aniva lighthouse was built by the Japanese in 1939, on a chunk of rock off the southern coast of Sakhalin, a thin 950 km long island situated just east of Russia, between the sea of Japan and Russia’s Sea of Okhotsk. The island was mostly uninhabited until 1800 were when both Japan and Russia became interested in annexing it; the Russians for use as a penal colony.
That led to years of conflict, decrease, and buildup of military forces, with both nations agreeing to split the island across the 50th parallel. A ring of light-houses was built on Sakhalin’s rocky coast to signal incoming troop carriers and merchant ships.
Now the Aniva lighthouse is abandoned. Its seven stories of diesel engines, accumulator rooms, keeper’s living spaces, radio facilities, storerooms, large clockwork pendulum (for regulating optical system), and 300kg pool of mercury (as a low friction rotation surface for the lens) are still, and echo only with the crash of waves against the surrounding crags.
This artwork was hand painted using premium oil paints (Mussini, Old Holland, Michael Harding, Williamsburg, etc.).
The painting is one of a kind artwork which was not repeated or copied or reproduced.
It is ready to hang and comes on a stretched canvas with the edges painted.
The painting will be carefully packed to ensure it arrives safely at the destination.
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The Atomic Lighthouse
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Oil on canvas, 85*61, 2018
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Yulia McGrath was born in Russia in 1985 and moved to Singapore in 2008 to pursue her Doctorate in Applied Physics after graduating from Moscow State University. Her passion for visual art has been nurtured from a young age, alternately complementing and balancing her commitments as a student and researcher.
Yulia has enjoyed working in different forms and media, but has increasingly focussed on painting in recent years. Her work is versatile, employing oil, acrylics and pastels, depending on the demands of her subjects; and on occasion incorporating three-dimensional effects to create unique textures. She works with brushes and painting knives, sometimes in combination, to achieve highly textured and expressive surfaces on canvas.
Yulia’s art draws heavily on the beauty of nature, often realised through its deep relationship with humanity. Our presence is revealed in the blending of human structures with natural forms, each with its distinctive symmetries; and more subtly as the window of conscious perception which lends meaning and emphasis to the scenes unfolding in her vision.
Certain themes and motifs tend recur in her work, notably the Lighthouse and the Tree of Life, famous cities, and of course music.
Yulia moves effortlessly between impressionist, realist and surrealist styles, all of which are united by her characteristic use of bright, vivid live colours symbolising passion and love of life.
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