Max Boyla
b. 1991, Edinburgh lives and works in London
Sea Within a Sea, 2025
Dye, acrylic and seaweed ink on satin 130x190cm
Price: £7,500
“After testing how the ink looked, I somewhat emulated its colour in a mix of dyes and acrylics, and then combined the seaweed ink into a kind of alchemic, hot dye bath. I generally use satin as the toxic and synthetic base for my work and was interested in the friction that played out while using the natural seaweed ink. It produces a wonderfully elusive colour, shifting like the tides as the daylight changes throughout the day in my studio. I clamp dyed a pattern of stars into the painting and titled the work after a song from The Horrors second album. I like to load paintings with an openness, considering multiple interpretations and dualities, but it's what people bring to the work themselves that gives it life.
I think a lot about emanation, cause and affect, and I hope collaborative ecological farming projects like this can get the support they need to keep making positive changes to our environment and how we choose to interact with it.”
- Max Boyla
Image Copyright the Artist. Photo by Matthew Hollow. Portrait by Moriah Ogunbyi
85% of all proceeds will be donated to support WWF's marine conservation work
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