Landlocked Painting

This painting is very much inspired by the brooding atmosphere of the Gairloch Peninsula in the North West Highlands, which I used to visit regularly as a child and still return. It was from here that the Arctic convoys gathered and then set sail from there to the Baltic in WW2 and along this coast, that nuclear submarines would stalk (and still do) the seas during the height of the Cold War. One can see the influence of Magritte in the surreal juxtaposition of land and submarine, and of Casper David Friedrich, in the depiction of vast, wild open space and of human minutness and isolation within that. There is an awesome and mortal power to the submarine too, as it rears up from the heather. In the end though, nature over powers all man's edifices. Already it seems to have begun to overrun the vessel, which lies mysteriously stranded, a helpless yet strangely beautiful relic on the open moor.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:34.6 W x 28.3 H x 1.2 D in

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