She Holds Up The World

Description

She Holds Up The World oil on canvas 46x36x2cm 18.9.2026 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. We meet the Torch Bearer (bottom left) the Flying Dragon (bottom side right) and the Messenger (top center). Also a mystical creature (bottom inside right).

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.