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After The Ball — free-floating fine art metal print by Gary Nicholls

After The Ball

Free-floating fine art metal print

Fairy Tale · Surreal Art

£2,100 2024 51 × 51 cm Limited edition of 7

  • Printed on ChromaLuxe aluminium
  • Signed, numbered and certificated by the artist
  • Made to order — allow about two weeks, plus delivery
  • Shipped insured — £20 UK, £50 worldwide
  • Payment handled securely by SumUp — card details never touch this site
  • Fourteen days to change your mind, from the day it arrives
  • Buying more than one? Ask first — one parcel, one delivery charge

WOW, what on earth is going on in that head of yours? Complex is an understatement. Such imagery, stunning props and a fabulous story. Surely this has to be a film?

Mark G., on The Imaginarium Trilogy · more

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About this work

The fairy tale has ended, but the story has not. A solitary figure runs through a bleak, unfamiliar landscape, clutching the glass slipper that once promised transformation. The gown remains, but the enchantment has begun to unravel.

Behind her, the remnants of Cinderella’s world are scattered across the earth — pumpkins, discarded possibility, the fragile debris of a dream that could not last. What was once magical now feels exposed and uncertain.

After the Ball reimagines Cinderella not as a story of rescue, but of awakening. The slipper becomes less a symbol of romance than of choice: whether to return to the illusion, or continue forward without it.

This is the moment after midnight — when fantasy recedes, reality returns, and the heroine must decide who she is when the magic is gone.

How it is made, and what you receive

Built, not captured
Every element is photographed separately, then layered and worked in Photoshop until the scene holds together as one image.
No AI, no stock images
Every photograph in every composite was taken by me. Nothing here is generated, and nothing is bought in from a library.
Printed on metal
The image is infused into a ChromaLuxe aluminium panel rather than laid on top of it, which is what gives these prints their depth and luminosity. Paper cannot do it.
Signed and numbered
Each print is signed, numbered within its edition, and sent with a certificate of authenticity.
Made to order
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your print is produced when you order it, which takes about two weeks, then shipped insured.