Fortitude
2018-2023
Oil on Canvas
180 x 120 cm
This painting has been a long time coming; altering and changing continuously over the past few years. The piece has always been in the studio where I have seen and reflected upon it frequently. Yet, sometimes the best solution is to proceed with what sometimes (in retrospect) seems a mistake; allowing spontaneity and chance to make drastic alterations. In the end, those choices fuse into something that cannot be planned for.
Fortitude is part of an ongoing series that attempt to convey a continuing concern with our human condition, the traditions in which it is represented together with a desire to connect with audiences using a subject-matter that communicates multi connotations through colour and scale in conjunction with methodology.
We are all human. We all experience various happenings within our life-time; good and bad. Yet, we all bare the marks of these experiences, even if they are not all visible. Those experiences drive us forward; we evolve with change. We grow through knowledge pasted on by others and from our own involvements with life. Particular events may mark us and have a lasting effect, which we assimilate into our life. It is only upon reflection that we become aware of how and why these happenings and influences shape the way we are.
All work is hand prepared by the artist using professional products.
2018-2023
Oil on Canvas
180 x 120 cm
This painting has been a long time coming; altering and changing continuously over the past few years. The piece has always been in the studio where I have seen and reflected upon it frequently. Yet, sometimes the best solution is to proceed with what sometimes (in retrospect) seems a mistake; allowing spontaneity and chance to make drastic alterations. In the end, those choices fuse into something that cannot be planned for.
Fortitude is part of an ongoing series that attempt to convey a continuing concern with our human condition, the traditions in which it is represented together with a desire to connect with audiences using a subject-matter that communicates multi connotations through colour and scale in conjunction with methodology.
We are all human. We all experience various happenings within our life-time; good and bad. Yet, we all bare the marks of these experiences, even if they are not all visible. Those experiences drive us forward; we evolve with change. We grow through knowledge pasted on by others and from our own involvements with life. Particular events may mark us and have a lasting effect, which we assimilate into our life. It is only upon reflection that we become aware of how and why these happenings and influences shape the way we are.
All work is hand prepared by the artist using professional products.
2018-2023
Oil on Canvas
180 x 120 cm
This painting has been a long time coming; altering and changing continuously over the past few years. The piece has always been in the studio where I have seen and reflected upon it frequently. Yet, sometimes the best solution is to proceed with what sometimes (in retrospect) seems a mistake; allowing spontaneity and chance to make drastic alterations. In the end, those choices fuse into something that cannot be planned for.
Fortitude is part of an ongoing series that attempt to convey a continuing concern with our human condition, the traditions in which it is represented together with a desire to connect with audiences using a subject-matter that communicates multi connotations through colour and scale in conjunction with methodology.
We are all human. We all experience various happenings within our life-time; good and bad. Yet, we all bare the marks of these experiences, even if they are not all visible. Those experiences drive us forward; we evolve with change. We grow through knowledge pasted on by others and from our own involvements with life. Particular events may mark us and have a lasting effect, which we assimilate into our life. It is only upon reflection that we become aware of how and why these happenings and influences shape the way we are.
All work is hand prepared by the artist using professional products.