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Painting by Paul Winstanley, Veil 20 (oil on linen, 224cm x 213cm, 2007). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work in Paul Winstanley's career from the 2000s: his "Veil" series of meticulously rendered, diaphanous, translucent paintings of mainly vacant interiors, which focused on light streaming in through or blocked by wall-to-wall and sheer curtains (as in this work), blinds and large plate-glass windows that sometimes framed outdoor conditions such as mist. These images often feature windows as a motif: screens partially obscured by translucent curtains, blinds, fog or mist that function like thresholds into surreal, uncanny parallel worlds, points of interpenetration between interior and exterior realities, or frames-within-frames recalling the Renaissance notion of paintings as windows. Works in this series were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in art journals and press publications, and acquired by major museums.

Artist Paul Winstanley. Copyright held by the artist.

Paul Winstanley

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work in Paul Winstanley's career dating from the 2000s, when he produced his "Veil" series of large, meticulously rendered, diaphanous, translucent paintings of mainly vacant interiors, which focused on light streaming in through or blocked by wall-to-wall and sheer curtains, blinds and large plate-glass windows that sometimes framed outdoor conditions such as mist. Critics described them as haunting, sometimes unsettling works that emphasised the transience of the interior-exterior relationship, either mediating views of landscape and bright outdoor light or closing them off in ways suggesting the isolation of a cloister or cell. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this major body of work, which brought Winstanley ongoing recognition through museum acquisitions, prominent exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Winstanley's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Paul Winstanley, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general working of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.