Oil
Watercol
Digital
Sculpture
Performance
G271A The Invisible Woman
Oil on canvas
Dec 2010 to Sep 2011, Size 693x1202 mm
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G271A The Invisible Woman
Oil on canvas Dec 2010 to Sep 2011, Size 693x1202 mm |
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About this painting
This painting is about childlessness and the sadness of not having a family. To have no family, particularly for a woman, can seem like being invisible to all but those older than you.
We see a woman made of sky, barely visible in a landscape of frost. A dry cracked ram's skull mirrors her biology. The partial rainbow indicates a lack of completion. A seagull screams in panic. The landscape on the left shows a mother and child and on the right another face in melancholic green. The legs look as though they are made of stone. |
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Technical details
This was my largest painting to date. It is executed on polyester canvas, a brilliant surface for painting, being very tough and having excellent long term stability. The surface doesn't accept pencil easily so the underdrawing was traced onto the surface using oil paint.
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