Artist: Chelsea Hopkins-Allan
Title: Butterfly Wing Scales No. 36
Series: Butterfly Wing Scales
Edition: Limited total edition of 100 prints. Each print is hand-signed, titled and numbered by Chelsea Hopkins-Allan in pencil on the lower front edge of the print.
Medium: Archival giclée fine-art reproduction using archival pigment inks on 310 gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper — a 100% cotton archival fine-art paper selected for its substantial weight and finely textured surface.
Framed size: 75 × 99 cm
Orientation: Portrait as signed (NOTE: the abstract composition may also be displayed in landscape orientation)
Framing: White custom box frame with the artwork float-mounted above a white backing, creating additional separation, shadow and depth within the frame.
Glazing: Premium-grade acrylic glazing
Colour: Predominantly vivid lime, lemon and emerald green with turquoise, cobalt blue, coral, orange, pink, burgundy and darker neutral detailing.
Availability: One framed Art Display Stock limited edition
Status: Discontinued — this framed limited-edition product is no longer being produced in this format. This is one of the final remaining framed examples held in the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock collection.
Regular price: AUD $1,500
SALE PRICE: AUD $900 — 40% OFF
Butterfly Wing Scales No. 36 forms part of Chelsea Hopkins-Allan’s Butterfly Wing Scales series, inspired by the minute overlapping scales that create the extraordinary colour, texture and structure of butterfly and moth wings.
Across the composition, thousands of repeated elongated marks form a richly layered field of shifting colour. Rather than following a rigid geometric arrangement, the marks vary subtly in spacing, direction and intensity, producing an organic surface that changes character as the viewer moves closer to or further away from the work.
This particular composition is dominated by luminous yellow-green, lime and emerald tones. These are interwoven with passages of turquoise and cobalt blue, together with coral, orange, pink, burgundy and darker neutral accents. The result is a densely layered chromatic field in which smaller areas of contrasting colour continually emerge from the broader green structure.
At close range, the individual repeated marks and subtle variations between them become apparent. From a distance, they merge into larger bands, currents and patches of colour, giving the work a strong sense of rhythm, movement and visual texture.
The Butterfly Wing Scales series draws upon the microscopic structure and colour variation found in butterfly and moth wings, translating these near-invisible natural forms into intricate abstract compositions at an enlarged scale.
This limited-edition giclée print was produced using archival pigment inks on 310 gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper. The 100% cotton archival fine-art paper has a pronounced tactile surface and substantial weight, giving the reproduction a character particularly well suited to Chelsea Hopkins-Allan’s original watercolour-based mark-making.
Each print in the total edition of 100 is individually checked, hand-signed, titled and numbered by Chelsea Hopkins-Allan in pencil on the lower front edge of the print.
The float-mounted presentation gives the work additional physical separation from the white backing and creates subtle shadow and depth within the white box frame, allowing the artwork to appear visually suspended within the frame.
This framed limited-edition product has been discontinued and no further framed examples in this format are being produced. This is one of the final remaining examples from the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock collection.
This artwork forms part of the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock Sale collection.
Photography note: The photograph shows the actual artwork and frame. The frame and backing are white. Ambient lighting, reflections through the glazing, camera white balance and image processing can introduce warm, cool, blue, grey or yellow casts and can slightly affect the apparent balance of the greens, yellows, blues and other colours. The physical artwork, white frame and white backing are clearer and more naturally balanced when viewed directly.
Artist: Chelsea Hopkins-Allan
Title: Butterfly Wing Scales No. 36
Series: Butterfly Wing Scales
Edition: Limited total edition of 100 prints. Each print is hand-signed, titled and numbered by Chelsea Hopkins-Allan in pencil on the lower front edge of the print.
Medium: Archival giclée fine-art reproduction using archival pigment inks on 310 gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper — a 100% cotton archival fine-art paper selected for its substantial weight and finely textured surface.
Framed size: 75 × 99 cm
Orientation: Portrait as signed (NOTE: the abstract composition may also be displayed in landscape orientation)
Framing: White custom box frame with the artwork float-mounted above a white backing, creating additional separation, shadow and depth within the frame.
Glazing: Premium-grade acrylic glazing
Colour: Predominantly vivid lime, lemon and emerald green with turquoise, cobalt blue, coral, orange, pink, burgundy and darker neutral detailing.
Availability: One framed Art Display Stock limited edition
Status: Discontinued — this framed limited-edition product is no longer being produced in this format. This is one of the final remaining framed examples held in the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock collection.
Regular price: AUD $1,500
SALE PRICE: AUD $900 — 40% OFF
Butterfly Wing Scales No. 36 forms part of Chelsea Hopkins-Allan’s Butterfly Wing Scales series, inspired by the minute overlapping scales that create the extraordinary colour, texture and structure of butterfly and moth wings.
Across the composition, thousands of repeated elongated marks form a richly layered field of shifting colour. Rather than following a rigid geometric arrangement, the marks vary subtly in spacing, direction and intensity, producing an organic surface that changes character as the viewer moves closer to or further away from the work.
This particular composition is dominated by luminous yellow-green, lime and emerald tones. These are interwoven with passages of turquoise and cobalt blue, together with coral, orange, pink, burgundy and darker neutral accents. The result is a densely layered chromatic field in which smaller areas of contrasting colour continually emerge from the broader green structure.
At close range, the individual repeated marks and subtle variations between them become apparent. From a distance, they merge into larger bands, currents and patches of colour, giving the work a strong sense of rhythm, movement and visual texture.
The Butterfly Wing Scales series draws upon the microscopic structure and colour variation found in butterfly and moth wings, translating these near-invisible natural forms into intricate abstract compositions at an enlarged scale.
This limited-edition giclée print was produced using archival pigment inks on 310 gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper. The 100% cotton archival fine-art paper has a pronounced tactile surface and substantial weight, giving the reproduction a character particularly well suited to Chelsea Hopkins-Allan’s original watercolour-based mark-making.
Each print in the total edition of 100 is individually checked, hand-signed, titled and numbered by Chelsea Hopkins-Allan in pencil on the lower front edge of the print.
The float-mounted presentation gives the work additional physical separation from the white backing and creates subtle shadow and depth within the white box frame, allowing the artwork to appear visually suspended within the frame.
This framed limited-edition product has been discontinued and no further framed examples in this format are being produced. This is one of the final remaining examples from the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock collection.
This artwork forms part of the Enigmatic Drawings Art Display Stock Sale collection.
Photography note: The photograph shows the actual artwork and frame. The frame and backing are white. Ambient lighting, reflections through the glazing, camera white balance and image processing can introduce warm, cool, blue, grey or yellow casts and can slightly affect the apparent balance of the greens, yellows, blues and other colours. The physical artwork, white frame and white backing are clearer and more naturally balanced when viewed directly.
