‘Dazhbog’ Fancy Intense Yellow Oval Diamond

Part of eco-centric art and inspired by her diamantaire (diamond cutter) grandfather, S. P. Harper paints abstract geometrics using reclaimed material. By synthesizing historical and contemporary styles she combines the classical tradition of still-life painting with modernism. Through reforming and re-employing materials, the work reduces, reuses and up-cycles. Recovered background patterns disappear behind opaque paint and reappear through transparent washes. Gods of fire have been chosen to represent gem stones. An inner landscape is reveled through the facets of the brilliant-cut diamond.