Gold Dazzle (nfs)

Description

Gold Dazzle oil on deep canvas 50x20x4cm  Inspired by an original photo of the Coin Caves of Grutas Moeda, Portugal, This work part of the Cave Series and features creatures who have emerged out of the rocks, what I have seen in the original cave photograph and mostly, via creation in motion. In this work we meet a giant majestic winged creature, a strange goblin-like (bottom left), an “elemental” or “other-worldly” dog, and other birds and other mystical creature.

I believed my “Cave Series” paintings was complete with the what now is the penultimate work Deeper Still, until I spotted another photograph in my album and the shapes shouted out to be painted.  And here we are.  Now we are complete!

The Cave Series is the threshold of my new and emerging, and  mysterious visual language, discovered in each moment, in each sitting.  How the inner voice and creativity is inherently and unmistakenly guided and who has no opposite.

My current direction follows the inner eye seeing what is hidden within each piece of research, each art work and each piece in progress – some shapes, creatures, human and other-worldly which stand out to greet me and find their way onto the canvas.  What emerges is something completely different to any original.  The style is definitely informed and inspired by my equally prolific artist and mother Renée Chatlani’s Black and white charcoal works as well as some oil paintings . This work is a bow to nature and all its splendour,  the forests, to carnivals, to forest and cave dwellers and creatures seen and unseen and to those great masters who have inspired and continue to inspire us all, and those modern masters whose creativity knows no bounds.