Over the Hills Into Lost Time

I had the Trojan War and Mycenaean Greece in mind while creating this piece. In fact, a number of the fine details are based on Mycenaean art.
My aim was to create a mysterious landscape that echoed lost time and the time of the Trojan War.

High quality Old Holland and Art Spectrum oils used on triple-primed canvas.
Ready to hang with strong wire/d-rings on the back.
Both brushes and palette knives were used, with the horizontal bands created using the masking-off technique and the oil paint thickly applied with the palette knife to achieve a marbled effect.

The thin, intricate lines were created first by lightly pencilling the designs then going over with oil paint using a very fine brush.

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 Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome.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