Another painting possibly heading for IX next month although watch this space for news on me going or not. ..
After the relative complexity of "City of Light" I fancied something simpler but still with a luminous moonlit sky as they seem to be popular with collectors and previous paintings heading for IX have already sold so I needed a couple more for the show. This is about the third or fourth painting of mine that has it's roots in a famous Arnold Bocklin picture called "Isle of The Dead" (in fact he did a number of paintings on this theme) with this one having a very still atmosphere combined with a sinister element hinted at by the title. I don't like "pretty" pictures per se and am always attracted to and indeed hope my paintings reflect a more ambiguous content so they can be beautiful but with a dark edge to them.
Oil on linen 22" x 16"
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
No comments:
Post a Comment