{"product_id":"artist-made-painter-s-palette-wall-light","title":"Artist-Made Painter’s Palette Wall Light","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThere’s something rather romantic about a painter’s palette once the painting has stopped. All that colour left behind — mixed, scraped, buried and mixed again — becomes an accidental record of decisions made elsewhere. The paintings have gone; the evidence remains.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one has had a particularly good working life. Great passages of turquoise, violet, yellow, rose, green and ultramarine have accumulated across its surface, sometimes several layers deep. Look closely and it’s extraordinarily painterly; pull back and the whole thing begins to read as an abstract composition in its own right. Not consciously made, perhaps, but made nonetheless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then somebody had the rather wonderful idea of adding light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThe construction is pleasingly simple. A metal bracket mounts the palette away from the wall, creating a shallow space behind it in which the bulb sits concealed. Light is allowed to escape indirectly around the irregular edges, washing the wall in a warm halo, while the original thumb hole becomes a small, brilliant disc. Nothing on the front announces itself as a light fitting; the palette remains almost entirely intact.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect inevitably brings to mind that old preoccupation of painters with trying to make \u003cstrong\u003elight out of pigment\u003c\/strong\u003e. Turner pushed paint towards something almost immaterial — colour dissolving into atmosphere and illumination. Here the process is rather charmingly reversed: instead of paint attempting to describe light, actual light emerges from behind the paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eIt’s an appealing collision of things: studio debris, found abstraction, sculpture and functional lighting. Switched off, it remains a richly worked object with all the physical pleasure of dried paint — ridges, scrapes, mixtures and little archaeological layers of colour. Switched on, the palette darkens and the light takes over, glowing around its outline and through that perfectly placed circular aperture.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe black twisted fabric cable is deliberately visible, dropping freely down the wall with an inline switch. There’s no need for hardwiring; the light simply mounts to the wall and plugs into a socket. That informality feels entirely right for it. Less a conventional wall light than a small piece of the artist’s studio that has somehow found another life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eDetails\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Late 20th century \/ contemporary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Artist’s wooden palette, paint, metal and electrical fittings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 35 cm × Width 25 cm × Projection 8 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWiring:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black fabric-covered twisted flex with inline switch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstallation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wall mounted; plugs directly into a standard socket\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good found\/vintage condition. The heavily worked, paint-encrusted surface is intrinsic to the piece, with scratches, dried paint, deposits and general evidence of its previous life as a working artist’s palette. The metalwork to the reverse has age and surface wear. Please refer to the photographs for detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDelivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQualifies as a smaller item. UK delivery via insured courier\/FedEx at checkout; international shipping available — please get in touch for a quote.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disjecta Membra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60664694538574,"sku":null,"price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0791\/6201\/6078\/files\/IMG_0010_4fe8f201-1893-4522-a63d-7a02c770c8c0.jpg?v=1788532122","url":"https:\/\/disjecta.co.uk\/products\/artist-made-painter-s-palette-wall-light","provider":"Disjecta Membra","version":"1.0","type":"link"}