New Work! The Original 'Writing Is In The Air' Black & White Paintings !

The Writing is in the Air - Original Black - II of II (diptych) 24 W x 24 H x 1 D in Ink & Mixed Media on Canvas (c) Deb Chaney 2021

The ‘Writing Is In The Air’ was a series of painting that came and went out of nowhere last year…

What happened was this:

Braid Street Studios where I’d been working were closed down, to be torn down for a new high rise building to be built in its place. During the “evacuation of artists’ a very sweet and kind fellow artist gifted me a whole bunch of bank canvases on her way out!

I decided to do something different with these blank canvases, and played around with pencil and ink, getting my inspiration for these paintings from passages while re-reading ‘The Universe Has Your Back’ spiritual inspiration book by Gabi Bernstein.

(This is a wonderful book, highly recommend it!)

I started each painting by writing down a key phrase or words in acrylic and India inks that really spoke to me and then layered them with water , gesso and acrylic mediums, focussing on simplicity and less-is-more.

If you are familiar with my heavily textured work - sand and gel - this series definitely was a departure for me, but fun to explore!

All that said, this painting, The Writing Is In The Air - Original - Black II’ 24” x 24” x 1” Mixed Media on canvas,

along with its brother painting ‘ The Writing Is In The Air - Original - Black I’ were the first two paintings that started the series and they have a beautifully old-book-like aged quality to them that was really only captured in these first two paintings.

Both of these paintings are available for your collection at Saatchi online gallery. You can purchase them online here:

The Writing Is In The Air - Original - Black I
The Writing Is In The Air - Original - Black II