Roman General 1

The first of three expressionist, Francis Bacon-style portraits where I have not referenced an Ancient Roman bust.

Here is a representation of a Roman General. The portrait has largely been created using brushes with a minimal amount of palette knife work used for additional impasto effects.
A range of high quality oil paints were used - Cranfield, Art Spectrum, Winsor & Newton, Old Holland and Michael Harding - on triple -primed canvas.

Some of the initial rough grey lead pencil lines have been deliberately left visible to reveal the “mechanics” of this work’s construction and provide an interesting contrast with the textural and vibrant qualities of the oil paints.

Signed in bottom-right corner and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Ready to hang with strong d-rings/wire on the back.
Sides of canvas have been painted black.

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 Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome.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