Trireme Painting

Abstract painting depicting an Ancient Greek warship 'Trireme' struggling in stormy seas close to the landscape with the eyes of a God watching over the stricken ship. Rich blues and reds provide dramatic colours, with areas of black and greys provide for a visually stimulating painting. This is an interpretation by my friend Maria and what this painting means to her. H2O: .."And I dream of blue, I dream of oceans and seas, universes galaxies, skies and stars. I dream of life, I dream of wings, I dream of the wind, I dream of hopes, I dream of perhaps," Blue, symbolic blue, is a powerful colour in all its variety of tones. A crucial element to depict some universal concepts, life, freedom and soul, as it happens in this painting called "Trireme". Trireme was the name given to the ancient Greek and Roman warships, which had three tiers of oars on each side, which fought important battles in real life, but also symbolically in the legends of mankind. These kind of ships were given female names, because they were regarded as female warriors, who sailed in the infinite sea. Precisely, in this painting, the blue background provides the piece with a scenery of fantasy, almost a science-fiction one, a mixture between the sea and the Universe, between now and tomorrow, between temporality and permanent. At the same time, the liquid element gets the result of liveliness and energy. The other colours in the piece, such as red, black or white, all together with the well-defined square-shaped structures, play the role of essential elements in the machinery of Life and Time. The deep vastness in the painting leads the viewer to dream about the hidden worlds, the parallel dimensions of space and time, the mythological journeys to past or future civilisations. The journeys to the world of dreams and fantasy and finally to the journey of discovery inside one´s soul, one´s conscience.....