Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Please note. This painting is on display at the State Colonial Bank in Sydney from 1st February - 30th April 2024. You can still buy it here through Bluethumb but it cannot be shipped until the end of the exhibition.

This is an interpretation of the Pictish Wolf, who/which is found carved into many of the ancient standing stones in the Scottish Highlands. I work from a basic outline, drawn anywhere between 800 and 1000 years ago, and reimagine it in three dimensional form. The drawing itself remains naive and primitive, conveying the energy of the pictoglyph.

The Picts, who were the original people populating much of Scotland back then, would draw marks to delineate the energy flow, or powerful points on the body (shoulder, haunch). I love these marks and have used them before in many of my paintings. Recently however, I have begun to research these at a deeper level, so this is the first is a series of paintings using the ancient drawings as a foundation for the work.

A note about the colours .. the background is deep blue/black. In some of the photos it looks more black - these are the trickiest colours to photograph due to the reflections. I have photographed the painting in different lights to show the black and the blue as best I can.