Tinned Life

Medium: Mixed media

Notes: The gallery has 4 of these pieces of various size, shape and price, including one signed by the artist. All feature painted impressions of sardines in a wax/resin mix, nested in authentic sardine cans the artist sources direct from the factory. Ortaire finds suitable fish in the market at Lorient, in Brittany, his local town which is renowned for it’s fish. He makes a mould of the fish which he then presses paper into to create the impression.

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