{"product_id":"the-big-idea-greg-latch","title":"The Big Idea | Greg Latch | Original Mixed Media Art","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr auto; align-items: center; gap: 0; margin-bottom: 3px; font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"background: #111111; padding: 14px 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #ffffff; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 3px;\"\u003eCan’t visit in person?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSchedule a private virtual viewing with Marcolina, from anywhere in the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/form-private-viewing-request\" style=\"display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; background: #FF1E8A; color: #ffffff; padding: 14px 24px; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; height: 100%;\"\u003eRequest a\u003cbr\u003eVirtual Viewing →\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: #FF1E8A; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 16px; font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.12em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003ePayment plans available  ·  Ships worldwide  ·  Certificate of Authenticity included  ·  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/form-private-viewing-request\" style=\"color: #ffffff; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eContact us to discuss options\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif; max-width: 680px; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; color: #ff1e8a; letter-spacing: 0.04em; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003eOriginal mixed media on canvas by Greg Latch · Painter and mixed media artist · Available at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003eA face sits low in the left of the canvas in The Big Idea, small round glasses on, eyes wide and a little startled, and from the top of the head everything pours upward. The hair is not hair so much as a flood of ribbons in dotted red, teal, olive, and cream, streaming toward the top edge and carrying tiny figures and shapes along with it. On the right, a hand rises out of the clutter with the fingers curled, as if it just caught something or is about to. Around it the painting turns into a crowded workshop of cogs, circles, eyes, beads, and small faces, all packed in tight. Latch signed it in the lower left corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003eThe title does the explaining and leaves you the work. The head is where the big idea starts, and the painting shows what that looks like from inside: not one clean thought, but hundreds, all moving at once and all competing to get out. The hand on the right is the part people tend to stay with. It is reaching into the pile, trying to pull one idea out before it gets buried by the others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003eThe surface is as busy as the picture. The paint is built up in raised lines and ridges, the way Greg builds with oils, markers, and knives, so the ribbons almost stand off the canvas. It is the kind of painting you can look at for ten minutes and still find a small face you did not see before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400; width: 40%;\"\u003eArtist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003eGreg Latch\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMedium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003eMixed Media on Canvas\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003e60 x 44 in\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCertificate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003eCertificate of Authenticity included\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eShipping\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003eShips worldwide with full insurance\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8; border-bottom: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePayment\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 600;\"\u003ePayment plans available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 12px;\"\u003eCollector’s Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003eAt 60 by 44 inches, The Big Idea is a large, wide original that needs a wall of its own. It suits a studio, an office, a creative space, or a living room where people tend to stay and talk. The surface is raised and layered, and a photograph flattens it, so a virtual viewing or a visit in person shows you the paint properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 12px;\"\u003eAcquisition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003eAvailable through Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans available. Private viewings by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings available for collectors anywhere in the world. Payment plans are arranged directly with Marcolina, and every inquiry is answered personally within 24 hours. Each original comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/form-private-viewing-request\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eContact us to inquire.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/become-a-collector\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNew to collecting? Read our collector guide →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003eA standard shipping rate is charged at checkout. Once your work is packed, we calculate the actual shipping cost for its size and destination. If there is a difference, we will follow up to either invoice the additional amount or refund the difference, whichever applies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"background: #F5F0EB; padding: 20px 24px; border-left: 3px solid #FF1E8A; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #111111; font-weight: 300; margin: 0;\"\u003e“It is about the concept of what the image can say in more than one way.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #111111; font-weight: 500; margin-top: 6px;\"\u003eGreg Latch\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border: none; border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8; margin: 8px 0 28px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eGreg Latch was born in Mississippi and studied acting and fine art at the University of Mississippi. He later worked as a portrait artist in Jackson Square in New Orleans, and in Tampa he spent years as a nurse in the city’s jails and a psychiatric hospital. He did not come to painting through galleries or art school. He came to it by watching people, and it shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eFor thirteen years he painted at Artist Unlimited alongside artists with master’s degrees from around the world, learned from master painter Ray Paul, and taught drawing with live models. He builds his surfaces with oils, markers, and a range of knives, layering until the canvas turns almost sculptural, and he works from spontaneous drawings and mismatched imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #111111; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eHis work sits between portraiture and abstraction, and he says himself that it is not really about the image. He was featured in the Persona exhibition at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery alongside Blake Emory, Guillo Pérez 3, and Mark Rendini. He lives and works in Tampa, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/collections\/greg-latch\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eView more work by Greg Latch →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/greg-latch\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRead Greg’s full story →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/pages\/our-artists\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eMeet all of our artists →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marcolina's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48390931939647,"sku":"","price":13000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2773\/6639\/files\/TheBigIdea_mixedmediapaintingbyGregLatch.png?v=1792441351","url":"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/products\/the-big-idea-greg-latch","provider":"Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}