Artist creates fire image.
Victorian Contemporary Artist Steve Gray has created a painting as a mark of respect to all who have lost loved ones in the recent Black Saturday Bushfires. “I was seeing images of black tree shapes against the light ash background on the news and the idea quickly developed.” Steve said.
The large painting acrylic takes up a big wall in his lounge room, the subtle colours are whites with a hint of yellow in places. Mr Gray pointed out, “The stark images of the fires were so contrasty, It would have been so easy to create a dark foreboding picture, I wanted to provide a sense of the spirit of the people, ghost like, figments or mere memories, so faint against the landscape, yet not create a realistic piece. It is clearly an abstract image but the shapes of the brushstrokes are almost hieroglyphic, I hope people get a sense of the ’spirits’ talking to them.”
Similar in style to some of his earlier (more colourful) works on paper, this image is eerie in the way the colours are subtle on the canvas and seem convey so much in light of the recent fire tragedies..
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A very powerful image, Steve. Thanks for sharing.
Hey that’s awesome!
An intriguing piece - a different view - bringing a sense of real sadness. Once the immediate danger has passed, the pain and the sadness lingers on coating people’s lives like dust and ash.