The Heliades - daughters of the Sun - Morning Print

This is the Heliades (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) after the death of Phaethon…turning into Black Poplar trees; their tears become amber and the amber floats down the river. The colours of amber shine and glow like fragments of the sun itself. The materials are used for their reflective, liquid qualities. The myth is re-presented in terms of grief and warning at the potential end to our species. There is hope because the tears transmute into something precious and valuable; amber. For more information on this series of 4 paintings, please read other descriptions as well. This artwork can stand alone and it also works brilliantly as part of a series of 4 paintings; if you have a large, architectural space to place them.