Titan's Armour by Martin Relton

Titan's Armour

Martin Relton

Titan's Armour

Acrylic

20 x 20 x 0.8 cm

Signature: An original and unique artwork by Martin Relton

Inv: 034

AU$120

Available

This artwork is a visceral landscape, a monochromatic dream interrupted by a flash of submerged brilliance.

The work is dominated by a majestic, dark tide of charcoal, slate, and shimmering silver, suggesting a storm surge or the cold flank of a mythological beast.

At its core, a stretch of cerulean and verdigris paint forms an intricate, scale-like pattern—a serpent's armour or the mosaic of an abyssal reef.
This richly textured mass pushes back against the vast white space, which acts not as empty background, but as the crushing pressure of the deep ocean floor or the glaring, unforgiving sky.
The contrasting black-and-white cells at the edges are like shattered shoreline fossils, tracing the violent, seductive meeting of water, earth, and the unknown.
This is the Titan's Armour: a fragment of something immense and ancient, found washed ashore.