View in a Space
Hveravallir Geothermal Area, Island. Chris Hankey 2024
by Chris Hankey B.A. P.G.D. M.A.
Oils on Stretched canvas (Painted with Old Holland and Michael Harding oil paints and stretched on professional stretcher bars)
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h 76 x w 153 x d 2.5 cm h 29.9 x w 60.2 x d 1 in |
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Description
The artwork is a response to nature, painted outside and finished in the studio. In 2022 my son and I cycled toured Iceland for three months, The most extraordinary cycling of my life and I continue to create artworks about this incredible place. The painting explores our connection with nature, more than that, it explores landscape and seascape in the broader context of how weather systems develop that the sun drives the climate, It is about interconnection, philosophically it is an attempt to impress upon the viewer that we are not a separate creation from nature. That our consiousness, our self awareness evolved out of the same laws of nature that govern the evolution of the universe. From this philosophical point of view arises the paradigm that consciousness is the universe becoming self aware, holding a metaphorical mirror up to itself and asking the question what am I ..... Then the choice of how we treat nature arises. As we are nature it is in reality about how we treat nature, each other and ourselves. It teaches us about our fundamental responsibility towards nature.