A Roman Gallery

The genesis for this image came from a vision that came to mind while driving, the main idea being dark sculptures set against pink walls.
Featured here are a range of well known Ancient Roman figures. These include Commodus, Nero, Sulla, Caesar, Hadrian, Agrippina, Julia Domna, Julia Maesa, Tiberius, Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Augustus, Caracalla, Aurelian, Titu, Alexander Severus, Cato, Caligula, Diadumenian, Maximinus Thrax as well as some unknown figures.
The macabre, distorted triptych portraits are based on the paintings of Francis Bacon and contribute to the vintage 1960s aesthetic of this pink gallery.

High quality oil paints - Michael Harding, Art Spectrum, Winsor & Newton, Old Holland and Cranfield - have been used on triple-primed canvas.
This canvas was custom-made using high quality cotton and a thick and sold wooden stretched constructed with a sturdy cross-brace on the reverse.
Ready to hang with strong wire/d-rings on the back.

Signed in bottom-right corner and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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Jeremy Elkington has been painting since 1995 and in 2002 achieved his Masters of Visual Arts (By Research) at Monash University. Since 1997 Jeremy has been exhibiting his work in group and solo exhibitions and regularly submitting his work in an array of art prizes across Australia. In 2009 he won 'Best Australian Landscape' at the Herald Sun Rotary Club of Camberwell Art Show and in both 2018 and 2022 was a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize. At the core of much of Jeremy's artwork (especially in larger paintings) are desert landscapes, the ancient world (particularly Ancient Rome), ornament and abstraction. From 1997 to 2011 Arabic ornament and architectural elements (as well as the desert landscape) had been explored. Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome. Within such works Jeremy aims to evoke a sense of the hidden narrative, the epic, the surreal, the ornamental, the archaic as well as beauty. Since 2013 Jeremy has also explored abstraction, abstract-expressionism, silhouettes, the Gothic, portraiture (particularly influenced by the work of Francis Bacon) space and depictions of film scenes. Jeremy has also been producing drawings whose range of subject matter reflects that within his paintings but, at times, has explored pattern and ornament to an intense degree.
Jeremy has sold artwork across Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA.