Martin Finnin
Night Between Worlds
Night Between Worlds
Oil on canvas I 120 x 180cm
Amor rides a panther through a layered sky that shifts from black to royal blue. Beneath the night’s surface lie traces of earlier paintings - ghosts of colour, form, and feeling moving quietly under the cover of darkness.
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Artwork Details
Oil on canvas
120 × 180 cm
2021
Signed on the front | signed and dated on the reverse
Unframed
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This listing is for a €3,000 non-refundable deposit toward the total price of €18,500.
Paying the deposit secures the painting, and we’ll contact you within 24 hours to arrange the remaining balance by bank transfer. Once payment is complete, we’ll coordinate delivery or collection.
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Each work will be carefully prepared and delivered after the exhibition closes on 27 October.
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All artworks are sold directly by Martin Finnin and come from the artist’s studio, not through resale.
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Night Between Worlds
Each painting carries its own journey - here’s a glimpse of how this piece unfolded.
Painting for me is time. Applying paint, then watching, removing and beginning again until everything suddenly comes together once the painting decides it’s ready. Days or weeks may pass before I return to a surface, and sometimes years before a painting is done.
I spent long hours in Berlin’s museums looking at the old masters. The Cupid on a panther in this work was inspired by a marble relief I saw there — Amor Riding the Wild Panther by Ernst Rietschel (1852). The green trees are imprints from the garden outside my studio window.
I wanted a sense of night in this painting, a layered sky shifting from black to royal blue, holding both quiet and drama. This painting carries many stories beneath its surface. I thought it was finished once, but later covered it almost entirely with a light blue-grey and started over. You can still see traces of the symbols and marks I played with across that earlier layer.
On a cold winter’s night I painted most of it over in black. It seemed a crazy thing to do but it was that, that allowed the painting to find its direction. The black isn’t flat and when you stand in front of it and the light changes you can see imprints of earlier brushstrokes, like memories shifting and resurfacing as night comes and goes.
