Below the surface dream, shallow and light, Of what we say "we feel" - below the stream, As light, of what we think "we feel" - there flows With noisless current strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. - Matthew Arnold.

Monday, May 23, 2005

Days and Nights:Butterflies in the City

Butterflies are used as a metaphor for beauty's short life-span; its transient nature.

Days:

Oil on canvass, 23x33cm

I have put the close up of details for this little oil to show the effects of combining brush strokes with the pallet knife.







Nights:

Oil on canvass, 19x24cm