Somewhere in the Great Outdoors

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I know, I thought, I’ll do a landscape! Everyone likes landscapes.

So, I found this big canvas and a landscape image I liked.

It was a picture of cascading-rainforest-greenery by Australian photographer David Millard which, in itself, is an absolute stand out.

I consider my painting style to be to be figurative and realistic. If I use someone’s photograph as a resource, just like speaking a different language, when it translates into paint on the canvas it becomes something completely different.

For example the water. That’s completely fictional. Totally made up, ‘off-the top-of-my-head.’

But typically I can’t resist changing things, adding other elements and swapping inherent aspects around. In this case Cactus!

Now I like cactus. They are incongruous, both odd yet disarming. A thing of beauty with sharp spikes capable of causing pain.

Anyway, I used them in this work and, in an attempt to re-dress the balance, and return to all things ‘Australian’, I added a parrot! A Sulphur Crested Cockatoo to be exact.

So, the whole affair is a mix of Australian – Mexican with a bit of imagination thrown in. I guess you could call it ‘Australis Mexicalis.’

Though that sounds a bit medical!