Four Score Years and Ten

Four Score Years and Ten is one of my more personal paintings, taking several weeks to develop with multiple layers - it expresses personal beliefs about mortality, religion and being human.  As with other paintings and sculptures in this series its purpose is to remind myself and hopefully others,  to cease the moment and make the most of relatively short time that we experience consciousness as a bi-product of our biological function.

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Detail

Figurative Painting: Two Shrouded Figures

This weekend I have been mainly finishing off other paintings and doing promo stuff. This afternoon I had the urge to attempt a figurative painting. This is an area I have not done much before, I stick to mainly, abstract, sculpture and of course landscapes.

In a very spontaneous and quick session I produced this painting. I put the paint on the board with brush and palette knife almost without thinking and certainly without planning. This one scared me a little, after painting it I felt an overwhelming emotional release.

This evening I have been staring at it and the more I stare at the the more I see, there are more than two figures lurking in this painting!

What do you think?
What's your reaction to the painting?