Blue Lotus

Oil and ink on paper mounted on board and framed.

Preserver of life in the form of boats, and vessel for which to take the body to the next life, as casket back into the soil.

Oil and ink on paper and board

The first painting with more than one figure allowed me to develop the idea of interplay between two figures along with the contrasts of light and dark in their various guises.

This painting’s protagonist, Poseidon, was widely credited with the creation of the horse, but Rhea claimed she first spat a foal into existence and fed it to Kronos to fool him into thinking he was eating one of her offspring. Poseidon’s claim of the invention of horse racing, however, is not disputed.

One of the earliest paintings in the exhibition, in the formative stages of development of the half-man half-reptile creature which occurs and is refined later on.

A painting which took inspiration from Greek myths, with Hera’s rebellion (and Zeus’s revenge) centre stage, while Poseidon’s equine pursuit of Demeter and Hermes’ bark-shoed theft of cattle from Apollo also feature.