CLIFF STONE - BLACK VEN

£840.00 GBP

CLIFF STONE - BLACK VEN

Name: CLIFF STONE - BLACK VEN
Brand: Lucy Auge Ltd
Price: 840.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

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2026, Charred Wood

Unframed Dimensions: 50 cm × 50 cm (19.7 in × 19.7 in)
Framed Dimensions: 54 cm × 54 cm (21.3 in × 21.3 in)

Original work, signed by the artist, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, with the sale recorded in the artist’s archive.

PURCHASING OPTIONS:

Unframed: £840

Framed: £1,110 – presented in a museum-quality, bespoke charred frame. Currently photographed unframed.

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All artworks can be supplied framed, with museum-quality bespoke framing and secure crating for transport.

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About the Work

I have been working weekly through my Journal de Bord series for several years—an ongoing practice rooted in real-time observation, much like a captain's log. This approach is inspired by the Japanese shichijni ko calendar, where each micro-season lasts only a few days. Nature is constantly changing, and I strive to capture those fleeting moments before they vanish.

This piece is part of my Journal de Bord series, shared with my catalogue subscribers each week. In this entry, I reflect on what I observed in nature, how the piece unfolded, and the specific moment that inspired the work. Below is the journal entry to go alongside this artwork.

Entrée n°105

Black Ven is a large, unstable cliff on the Jurassic Coast between Lyme Regis and Charmouth — one of the first places in the world where significant dinosaur-era fossils were discovered, largely through the pioneering work of Mary Anning in the early 19th century. It's a place that feels loaded with time.

Each piece in this series is 50x50cm, a size I keep consistent — partly practical (I can carry them), but also intentional. It reminds me of those school trip quadrats, where you'd mark out a square of land and study everything within it. That's what I'm doing here, just with fire. Each new location creates its own abstract pattern, and I never know what the work will look like until it's finished.

Two pieces came from Black Ven. The first used the black shale itself, compacted mud shot through with limestone, small, straight-edged fragments that formed a quietly beautiful, geometric composition. The second used the stones gathered at the base of the cliff: cherts and flints that have slowly fallen from the cliff top over years, accumulating into a pale line against the dark shale.

I char the work because charring preserves — and these forms have been here for millennia. The geology is the author; I'm just the means of preservation. Even the frames are charred by the framers, so the work doesn't end at its edges.

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