Isle of Tears

 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.