Gritty City Print

Grey spires of mammon, granite crystals soaring into a leaden sky. Hopes, money and dreams scurry about its cracks and walls. The work contemplates a cityscape, gritty not only in the texture of the city buildings, emphasised by the rough grain of the finished image, but to the toughness of mind it takes to succeed in such a harsh environment. This is a classic city skyline that harks back to the soaring steeples of churches rising to the sky, but with a tough, unflinching permanence like the stone blocks of the Giant's Causeway or Fingal's Cave, a hard, cold, grey environment for humans to bring specks of life and motion.