For various reasons (explained in earlier posts on this blog) this has taken a long time to finish. The third in this as yet unnamed series of metaphorical landscapes this one has a nod to the Hudson River School which is appropriate as they are all American landscapes although none so far of a specific location and all are basically imaginary. I had a specific design to this painting in my head at the outset, a composition that made use of the panoramic format with dark hills at top taking up two thirds from the right, all the landscape at bottom being in shadow and an area of brightly lit mountains in the background in the remaining third of the picture at top. As the landscape is in shadow this would be a suitable tonally darker area for the campfire to be at a third in from the right - most of my paintings are based on The Rule Of Thirds in terms of composition.
This series is centred on a common theme of a small lit area in a usually vast landscape of some kind with this particular one being a metaphor for our individual journey through life, we are literally just passing through... through the vastness of the physical world and the complexity of society and all that that brings. That's why it's a camp fire, something temporary...
Oil on canvas 39" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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