This is the first painting after my tour of US National Parks in the South West and is the realisation of the original idea that I had while on the road; the incredible shapes and contours of the rocks I saw there suggested a living landscape of beings animal and human and kind of reflects the spiritual connection to the landscape that the indigenous people have out there. Although this trip was intended to provide material for paintings for my solo show next year at the Abend Gallery the first painting to come out of it is much nearer to a Fantasy painting and as such it will be shown at IX in Reading PA in October. The idea is predicated on people not seeing the eyes etc at first but I'm too close to it so I have no idea if this will be the case.
Oil on canvas 31" x 12"
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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