SOLD; ‘Don't Be Afraid' (100x100cm, white wood framed to 110x110cm)
The last words of the poet Seamus Heaney to his wife before he died were ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ – in the face of our current political and social anxiety, our sense of vulnerability and helplessness in the world around us, this series of immersive landscape paintings is themed around Heaney’s call to courage and determination, and the defiance of hope.
‘I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there’
- Dostoevsky
This painting, at first perhaps, appears to be a picture of the sea rolling towards a brighter horizon. But look closely and you will see a small boat, pointed towards that horizon, steered by people who have set to sea with tragedy and fear behind them, and hope before them.
Acrylic on canvas, white wood framed, this large painting is the result of many smaller works in which I have tried to convey my compassion, horror and admiration for both the people who have taken to wild seas because it was safer than the land, and as a metaphor for the need to Hold The Line, and hold hope for a better future, when everything seems lost.
Signed by the artist front and back; white wood framed, strung.
The last words of the poet Seamus Heaney to his wife before he died were ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ – in the face of our current political and social anxiety, our sense of vulnerability and helplessness in the world around us, this series of immersive landscape paintings is themed around Heaney’s call to courage and determination, and the defiance of hope.
‘I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there’
- Dostoevsky
This painting, at first perhaps, appears to be a picture of the sea rolling towards a brighter horizon. But look closely and you will see a small boat, pointed towards that horizon, steered by people who have set to sea with tragedy and fear behind them, and hope before them.
Acrylic on canvas, white wood framed, this large painting is the result of many smaller works in which I have tried to convey my compassion, horror and admiration for both the people who have taken to wild seas because it was safer than the land, and as a metaphor for the need to Hold The Line, and hold hope for a better future, when everything seems lost.
Signed by the artist front and back; white wood framed, strung.
The last words of the poet Seamus Heaney to his wife before he died were ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ – in the face of our current political and social anxiety, our sense of vulnerability and helplessness in the world around us, this series of immersive landscape paintings is themed around Heaney’s call to courage and determination, and the defiance of hope.
‘I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there’
- Dostoevsky
This painting, at first perhaps, appears to be a picture of the sea rolling towards a brighter horizon. But look closely and you will see a small boat, pointed towards that horizon, steered by people who have set to sea with tragedy and fear behind them, and hope before them.
Acrylic on canvas, white wood framed, this large painting is the result of many smaller works in which I have tried to convey my compassion, horror and admiration for both the people who have taken to wild seas because it was safer than the land, and as a metaphor for the need to Hold The Line, and hold hope for a better future, when everything seems lost.
Signed by the artist front and back; white wood framed, strung.