by Davidbog Artist | Apr 10, 2014 | painting
In my Painting Atalanta’s prize a part of the Legacy Of Olympus series, I draw from the myth of Atalanta and aspects of her legend. She would grow up to be a famous huntress, but while an infant was suckled by a she-bear after her father abandoned her in the wilds...
by Davidbog Artist | Mar 3, 2014 | painting
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” Virginia Woolf In Growing up/An Aristotelian in a Platonic world the next painting in my Mediation’s on perspective series, I chose to take that stage of growth when one matures into an independents of...
by Davidbog Artist | Feb 6, 2014 | painting
In we Trade Atoms the next in my Meditations on Perspective series, I looked at the roots (pun intended) of humanity as part of the biosphere. Drawing on our personification of Nature as motherly I decided to use females and so painted six women ‘chillaxing’ on the...
by Davidbog Artist | Jan 12, 2014 | painting
Echo and the Narcissist is the first painting form a series called Legacy of Olympus. Legacy of Olympus The central theme is sublime beauty (impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration) matched against the everyday lived...
by Davidbog Artist | Nov 5, 2013 | painting
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” C. S. Lewis In Passing Reign (a continuation of my Meditations on perspective series), I tell a story of Galway’s psychogeography, the steady march...
by Davidbog Artist | Sep 12, 2013 | in the artists studio
This is a little behind the scenes slideshow/video of my progression through the painting of ‘Vivienne in blue’. The image jumps about a bit as stop take a as i had to manually operate the camera.
by Davidbog Artist | Aug 23, 2013 | painting
Escape from freedom (1900-2000) “There are certain factors in Man’s nature which are fixed and unchangeable: the necessity to satisfy the physiologically conditioned drives and the necessity to avoid isolation and moral aloneness” Erich Fromm Escape from freedom...
by Davidbog Artist | Jul 2, 2013 | painting
“A few hours’ mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures.” Nietzsche In this series or trinity of oil paintings, Everywhere, There, Here (they are three individuals but one at the same time), I turn my attention to one of my...
by Davidbog Artist | May 29, 2013 | painting
In my opinion If a painting requires pages of explanation for it to become coherent to the viewer, it has failed in its primary function to communicate through the visual language the artist’s intention. Having said that I do believe work needs to be...
by Davidbog Artist | May 9, 2013 | painting
“A symbol always stands for meaning more than its obvious and immediate meaning” Carl G. Jung The is my most resonantly finished painting. It the second version of a commission I...
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