The Ghosts In The Hill
Acrylic ink and pastel on Fabriano paper
2025
Paper size: 76 x 56 cm
Image size: 70 x 50 cm
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This piece is sold unframed and will need to be framed with a mount, behind glass (non-reflective recommended) in order to be displayed. Please ask me if you would like any suggestions or advice.
About this artwork
The pastel is applied by first crumbling it onto the paper in small amounts, and then smoothing it across the surface by hand. The mountain area is made using a dip pen with fine nib.
Straining towards the heavens, mountains, hills, and mounds are intimately connected with ancestry and the souls who have passed over. Many spiritual and allegorical teachings connect that aspect of Earth which comes closest to the stars as also being 'underworld'. In this image I am considering these themes, and also the genius loci, the being residing in earthly form, which although on a different timescale to that of the human, will gradually change and pass into ceaseless versions of itself.
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