Oil Gallery

G121A Pleasant Dreams Oil on wood Sep to Oct 2007 Size 234x336 mm

About this painting This was a commission for a bedroom. The initial briefing was "abstract" and "blue", and I suggested that a part-surreal and part-abstract painting would suit my style best. I decided to paint a relaxing mood. The floating kite shapes are echoed in the triangular sail and its vague reflection. The moon, surrounded by delicate stars in silver paint, and the arc are also related. The arc is used to add depth and, together with the sunset, a suggestion of a pleasant future; a distant dream. The red triangle with its golden orb eye peers over the soft mountains like a paternal cyclops, its angles suggesting a fourth gigantic kite in the deep warm ocean.

Pleasant Dreams This painting has been sold.