Water And Fire Glass Wall Art 🔥 Flame & Teal Embracing Figures, Tempered Glass, Classical-Painterly Style

Two figures lie wrapped around each other so tightly you can't quite tell who is holding whom. One is red as embers, flame-haired and leaning in with eyes closed. The other is the blue-grey of deep water, tipped back with its hair spilling out until it simply becomes the sea beneath them. Every inch is built from fine, flowing strokes, as if the whole scene had been combed into place.

Fire and water are about the oldest pair of opposites people have. The Greek philosopher Empedocles counted them among his four elements, alongside earth and air. Later the alchemists drew them as a matched pair of triangles, one pointing up for fire and one pointing down for water. Painters have loved setting opposites in each other's arms for centuries. This one just does it with a good deal more colour and a lot less modesty about the drama.

This is a newly made piece, set behind tempered glass and offered in four sizes, from 28.5 by 18 inches up to a wall-filling 55 by 35 inches.

Hang it over a bed and the room gets a little warmer and a little cooler at the same time. If you ask us, that is exactly the point of the thing.

A flame-haired figure embraces a teal-watered figure in a meeting of opposites, every painted ripple and brushed strand caught in classical-painterly register. Water and Fire is contemporary painting in classical-painterly register — opposing pair caught in flame-and-teal theater.

Behind tempered glass, the flame-and-teal palette keeps its painterly depth and the brushstroke detail holds its tactile impasto, the polished surface giving the figurative cinematic depth.

A natural fit for rooms that welcome dramatic, painterly palette — a bedroom with statement pulse, a living room with editorial mood, a hallway with cinematic warmth. For classical-painting lovers, conceptual collectors, and anyone drawn to figurative imagery with fire-and-water poetry.