Golden spiral art: the Fibonacci curve as flame, fountain, stair and seed.

A golden spiral widens by the golden ratio every quarter turn. It is the curve in the nautilus, in the seed head of a sunflower, in the arm of a hurricane, and it is the curve painters have used to lead the eye since the Renaissance. The works on this page each take that curve as the whole subject, so the proportion is not hidden in the composition — it is the composition.

Some are built like stone. Depth and Gold Resonance is a ridged, sculptural spiral in cream and gold that resolves into a column, made for entrances and boardrooms. The Infinite Ascent climbs like a stair. Others behave like liquid: The Golden Flame rises with a seam of teal through its centre, The Celestial Fountain pours downward into droplets, The Molten Genesis falls in a single vertical form. The Lapis Lazuli Flow and The Tectonic Fibonacci lay the spiral down in blue and teal strata.

A spiral is a good choice for a tall or narrow wall, a stairwell, or the space above a fireplace, because the eye travels along it and keeps going. Gold on a dark ground wants a matte or satin paper; the pale spirals take satin and baryta papers as well. Every work is delivered as a full-resolution file around 9,000 pixels on the long edge, as a giclée print, or under a single venue licence.