Collection: Abstract Fantasy Landscape series
I slipped away to Madeira Island for a week during the pandemic to immerse myself in the mystical laurisilva forest. I returned brimming with inspiration and hundreds of reference photos and immediately threw myself into painting three medium canvases. These three paintings hold a special place in my heart as they mark the beginning of the Abstract Fantasy Landscapes series.
As I side-stepped from the From Nothing series, I began reworking some miniature studies. My focus was on reimagining current realities whilst still retaining some historically embedded ideas and concepts. On a personal level they explore the transition of moving countries, and in the current times they explore the changes to our lives as a result to the pandemic. As the world springs into bloom, so our perspective shifts accordingly.
All of the paintings were started in 2020 and left for over six months before returning to them and reworking, embedding the passage of time into their development. Particularly notable was a shift from dark colours and smoothly shaded shapes into increasingly brighter colours and graphic patterns. As the series develops into larger formats new challenges arise and spark more shifts and changes.
And so life (and this series) continues.