Nénuphar

Nénuphar is French for Water Lily so is ostensibly connected to the lilies in the pool at the bottom of the picture but as I love the word so much it could be the name of the woman emerging out of the pool or even the name of the Land itself. Another picture that is hopefully heading for Illuxcon in October this one is loosely based on an orange/red - green/blue complementary colour axis but in fact just has about every colour in the rainbow in it. The basic idea was to have a warm top third contrasting with a cool bottom two thirds centred around cool greens. The main influences on this landscape typical of what I used to paint as an illustrator are Maxfield Parrish and the Hudson River painters, particularly Albert Bierstadt and is just about the first time I have painted an imaginary mountain scape for fifteen years. Oil on canvas 15 3/4" x 31 1/2". There is a step-by-step progress through this painting on previous posts on this blog.