Speak To Me

The landscape depicted here is based on a photograph of a region of Wadi Rum‚ in Jordan. I loved the warm colours and the dreamy atmosphere. The panels of ornament/details overlapping or jutting in from the edges of the canvas stem from Arabic ornament. They were utilized with the intention of creating a sharp‚ intricate contrast to the richness and flow of the rock formations.
Very fine 000 brushes were used to create the intricate Arabic ornament.

The platform in the bottom-left corner has been placed so as to give the effect of one standing upon it and gazing across the vastness. It also establishes a smooth‚ modernist touch (as‚ also‚ the vertical beams/poles) in contrast to the ancient history indicated by the Arabic ornament and the archaic quality of the desert.

The left and right sides of the image actually feature a thin black border to emphasise the sense of this image being like a film still.
The left and right sides of the canvas are painted gold.

Top quality Art Spectrum brand oil paints are used on triple-primed canvas.

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 Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome.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