Marisol Vey · No. 212

Mosaic Peacock

Mosaic Peacock shows Marisol Vey at her most decorative and most disciplined. The bird is turned in regal profile, its fanned tail filling two-thirds of the frame, and Vey renders every eye-feather as a cluster of glowing tesserae — teal, cobalt and gold tiles ringed in dark leaded line so each ocellus reads like a jewel set in metal. Against a warm amber mosaic ground the cool plumage sings, the complementary contrast giving the whole surface an electric charge. What saves the piece from mere ornament is the impasto: the thick palette-knife tiles hold real relief, so the tail shimmers and shifts as the viewer moves. It is a study in pride and pattern, opulent without tipping into excess — a peacock worthy of the stained-glass tradition it quietly invokes.

An original oil painting on canvas by Marisol Vey, painted to order — never a reproduction. Radiant mosaic-impasto oils — subjects built from thousands of hand-cut palette-knife tiles fitted like stained glass, glowing with jewel colour and inner light.

Artist

Marisol Vey

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand