Slay The Dragon Print

I started painting this just before lockdown 2020. I hd been experiencing some issues and a friend suggested I 'call on my angels'. The idea stuck in my head and started to imagine what that would look like and mean. I wanted to rid myself of any past dark memories completely and imagined this warrior angel striking down to handle it. Simply by starting on this thinking process it lead to the next level which was the wall of roses. After that was completed and my focus was strictly on positive lushness I came back to the Angel painting with renewed spirit and direction. Completing the illustrating and adding the burnt edges and gold leaf layer to give it that added older otherworldly feel. I was specifically going for a simple byzantine kind of feel in the painting which is a disciplinary tactic I use prior to cutting loose on and abstract piece. The completion of these two paintings on paper was like going to school for illustrating in art history while at the same time the inner process was cleansing my inner world. through the mere act of focusing on the creative image there is an alchemical process which is why I believe art is spiritual in nature, a form of personal alchemy. I submitted this piece to a show in Sacramento and then Vancouver Canada following suite to pick it up. Symbolically it led the way up and outwards from the situation I was in. It is intense and has a dynamic and uplifting feel to it. An artist friend described it as DC comic superhero meets Klimt.