Thunder Collage

My collage was inspired by a story my mother told me of my grandfather's war time experience. A young solider on his first day in the trenches of the front line world war one. The noise and chaos of war exploding all around in the darkness of night asks his commanding officer if the noise he could hear was thunder. The officer replies no son that the sound of the heavy guns. The soldier was my grandfather his war was to end with a medical evacuation with the Spanish flu. He survived the war and the Spanish flu. The materials i used in the collage was a wooden base with hessian sacking as a surrounding border with barbed wire pined securely to the base. the medium was acrylic gouache finished with a matt varnish. The materials were used as a reminder of the chaos and visceral nature of war with every moment lived that could be your last and your every move dangerous. The collage is painted on a wooden panel surrounded by hessian sacking with metal barbed wire securely attached to the wooden panel. The painting has been rendered in acrylic gouache and finished with a matt varnish. The panel has been metal corded and ready to hang (No Framing Required) The Artwork is titled, signed and dated on the reverse side.