Dust to Dust Painting

My inspiration for this painting was driven by the death of my father. I struggled to grasp how someone with such presence, personality and history can be reduced to a pot of ashes. It brought home, to me, the reality that no matter what; birth, death and decay are an inevitable part of life. In order for me to come to terms with this loss I needed to explore, and express this process through paint. In the same way that a complex body is composed of simple elements, a painting, no matter how complex, is composed of three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. The face in the painting is my own, and in expressing the process of birth, death and decay by showing the life-death cycle in the paint returning back to its former state, somehow gave me great healing. Dust to Dust and That Old Black Dog were painted one after the other and encapsulate the same emotion. Oil on canvas, painted in 2002

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:0.4 W x 0.4 H x 1 D in

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