Above: Forest of Luffness 12. Oil on 30×30″ canvas. Rose Strang 2025
Today’s painting returns to the mysterious forest. I’m quite happy with the looseness of the paint. It made me reprise yesterday’s painting as I wasn’t too happy with the figure of Richard. Here it is …
Also some close ups of today’s painting …
Above: Forest of Luffness 11. Oil on 30×30″ canvas. Rose Strang 2025
I decided to work on yesterday’s painting a bit more as I felt it lacked depth and compared to the rest of the series, looked a bit sketchy.
More details below, including myself next to the painting to show scale…
Above: Forest of Luffness 11. Oil on 30×30″ canvas. Rose Strang 2025
More work today on the Forest of Luffness series. Today’s painting features Richard Demarco beginning to explore the tomb, while in the background Emma walks into the picture with baby Atlas. It’s an odd composition but I liked the filmic sense of mystery. I enjoyed painting loosely and freely; more of this sort of painting to come I think.
A few close-ups and details …
Above: First of June. Forest of Luffness 10. Oil on 12×12″″ canvas. Rose Strang 2025.
Today I updated yesterday’s painting of Richard Demarco, and as usual I’m not at all sure I shoudn’t have left it! Still, it does actually loo more like Richard, and it did need a bit more grounding – so I added legs, hint of the chair etc, but quite sketchy.
In the upcoming documentary, we”ll be interviewing Richard about some of his past work – exploring dialogue between war-torn countries and the healing presence of art.
Back when I worked with Richard as an assistant archivist and curator, Richard was working with Mercy Corp on an exhibition called Beyond Conflict, whch explored the negative impact 9/11 had had on a western view of Muslims.
We’ll be discussing that exhibition in the upcoming doc’ and we’ll be exploring the role of faith in art – does it change what we seek to express, or what we look for in others’ artworks?
Some more views of today’s finished painting.
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