The Final set of 9 images based on the poem by John Milton. 9 Works on canvas in mixed media each 28″ (71cm) sq
Paradise Lost
Category: Paradise Lost
Creation
This paradise I give thee, count it thine..
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Mixed Media on canvas with attached/modified objects pineapple top, an avocado stone, sunflower seeds, a snail shell and petals from an Amaryllis. There is also a small light bulb, a wrist watch mechanism and a feather.
28″ x 28″ sq (71cmx71cm) 2012
The start of a new piece, Creation the final frame of the Paradise Lost series?
I have in mind to use flowers, seeds fruit and geometric form. There may be a small light bulb in there somewhere too.
The Lamb : Earthbound
He shall ascend
The throne hereditary, and bound his reign
With Earth’s wide bounds, his glory with the Heavens.
John Milton Paradise Lost
For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall govern them,
Revelations 2:7
Acrylic paint, Acrylic medium, collage, Found Objects, Organic Materials including Sheep bone.
28″ x 28″ sq (71cmx71cm)
In progress.
Paradise Lost Maquette 1
A teaser taster, with 7 of the 9 frames completed. The lower two in the (vertical) centre row are mock ups at this stage. Some re-touching and final additions to a couple of the other frames still to do.
( frames each 28″ square)
Expulsion : The First Morning of Our World
“The World was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way”
John Milton Paradise Lost
Acrylic paint, Acrylic medium, collage, Found Objects, Organic Materials, Crayon, Marine Varnish.
28″ x 28″ sq (71cmx71cm)
Expulsion
Work in progress
Dialectical Vision: Theories of Order
SOLD
“God to remove his wayes from human sense,/ Plac’d Heav’n from Earth so farr, that earthly sight, / If it presume, might err in things too high,/ and no advantage gain”
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Acrylic paint, Acrylic medium, collage, Found Objects, Organic Materials, Crayon Printing Ink.
28″ x 28″ sq (71cmx71cm)
Sold 2015
Darkness Visible
No light, but rather darkness visible..
John Milton, Paradise Lost.
Above the Storm
“thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,”
“Back to the gates of Heaven: the sulphurous hail,
Shot after us in storm, o’erblown hath laid
Of Heaven received us falling;”
John MIlton : Paradise Lost, Book1
Mixed Media, including acrylic medium, organic objects layered on to cement on canvas.
71cm x71cm (28″sq)
2012
Sold 2015
Ascent
And from these corporal nutriments perhaps
Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit,
Improv’d by tract of time, and wingd ascend
Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice
Here or in Heav’nly Paradises dwell;
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Mixed Media, including acrylic medium, organic and found objects layered on to cement on canvas. 71cm x71cm (28″sq)
2012
Sold 2015
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