Birth of Energy Abstract Colourful Geometric Landscape Painting

This was a much more intuitive work than normal for me. I decided to let the mind wander and concentrate on shape and colour. As the work grew I began to think of science fiction as much as I wanted to create a sharp and energetic piece. I was also influenced by the music of the metal band Fear Factory who reference scienc fiction/man vs machine themes in their songs as well as the bizarre and beautiful art of Wayne Barlowe.

I enjoyed establishing the mix of abstract shapes with fine, intricate line work, creating layers of forms/details. For these things I used a range very fine up to medium-size brushes. At times, to create a number of the shapes I employed the masking-off technique.
Ready to hang with strong wire/d-rings on the back.

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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 Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome.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.