Forever Optimist - Framed only - 100cm squ/ 40" squ

Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print on Paper in 100cm squ with options of Tasmanian Oak frame, white frame or unframed. COMMISSION AN ARTWORK 'Forever Optimist' has been released as a limited edition print of 15 only. This artwork is a reproduction of my original mixed media artwork. This print is an edition of 15. This exclusive print is signed and numbered by the artist and comes with certificate of authenticity. Archival Pigment Print dimensions: 100cm x 100cm / 40" x 40" (Actual artwork is approx 84 x 84cm printed onto 100 x 100cm giclee paper) Framed Dimensions approx: 103cm x 103cm / 40.3" x 40.3" Framed art prints are heavily protected in double bubble wrap and double cardboard supports. *Approx. 3 days required for giclee printing. + *Approx. 2 weeks required for framing. Frames are handmade. Purchase with 'Forever Optimist - Aqua' to hang as a pair. COMMISSION AN ARTWORK The Optimist Story (My Story): At the beginning of 2019 I was going through a really sad time, I was beginning to lose hope in the world and hence becoming easily annoyed and angry. I decided I didn’t want to be this way, so I did what I always do and that is to start drawing what I wanted life to look like. The reoccurring theme seemed to be love and optimism. So I kept drawing hearts, I think I must of drawn hundreds, all over magazines and newspapers they kept developing and growing and I began to really start loving them and the process. I loved the effect of the background newsprint, but sometimes the words were wrong. So I research words of positivity and hope. I went through all the google searches and just kept adding to the list. I stopped watching and reading the news, I decided to create my own newspaper with these words. I wanted my heart to go onto words of love and hope. So I printed collages of these great words and started painting my multi-coloured hearts on top. I noticed that people started smiling at me in the street and I wondered why, then I realised it was because I was walking round smiling, my mode had changed. More people started contacting me and wanting paintings. I posted the hearts on my Instagram and I got so many orders for these hearts. I call them ‘The Optimist’ because that is was what I had become.