Rael Painting

The inspiration was from the classic album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway from British rock group Genesis. The protagonist, Rael, is depicted here. I produced a whole series of works inspired by their music and some others which in turn inspired them. The collection was published by Sidgwick & Jackson as 'Genesis Lyrics'. This is an early example of my signature style using granules of ground glass fused to sheets of steel. The technique involves fusing specks of pure pigment to the metal that is used as a base and the image is seen as if through a fine gauze. The firings are made many times over at high and low temperatures using both opaque and transparent glass. The technique was christened ‘Diaphanism’ by Salvador Dali – a term that has now entered the Oxford English Dictionary.