I'm fascinated by the movement in the grass, love the perspective.  Thanks for posting in the forums also so that we could see the progression.

Thanks, Sharon. It's all a bit of a slog. Here's a glipse of building the layers of grasses.

Glimpse!

I agree with Sharon 100%. Beautiful piece!

Oh, but worth it , the effect is stunning.  Thanks for the close up.

Thank you, Raul.

Nice work!

Exquisite work Fergus - such detail and soft lightling.

Thank you Michelle and Kristin.

There is much to find in this work (on all levels). 

Anthony, you always unveil the hidden structures of things. The image is a series of intersecting ellipses radiating out from the patch of exposed ground, with 'escape routes' for the eye at each side. The house is like a diamond in a ring. I found the old power lines to the lighthouse very evocative.

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I knew it! This is an abstract work masquerading as realism! It's like looking at clouds... we fleetingly see things in them that others do not! So the structure might be almost 'ammonite' but I can see other forms in there! Faces, reclining mouse etc etc. I know... I am being like those academic, literary fellows who dissect the works of Shakespeare and find things in them which would certainly surprise the old Bard! 

Anthony, you're a master of reader-response hermeneutics!

Very beautiful work, Sir!

Anthony, I may have to do a few minor adjustments to deal with those unintentional anthropomorphic and murine features! I am reminded of a friend who's a preacher saying, "Wonderful things in the Bible I see, some put there by you and some put there by me."

Ammonite ones, on the other hand, would be OK.

MPO, thank you. It's nice being called 'Sir'!

Fergus... please don't touch or add another blade of Grass! I've just spotted a Kingfisher emerging from water... and a startled Fox! ....Anyway...you'll only be inserting new 'unintentional imagery' if you tinker.... and you don't know if I have interpreted all these Bosch-like creatures; in fragments, in negative or inverted! I often intentionally hide things in my paintings (chocolate boxy as they at first might appear)! It all came from a fascination of Holbein's 'Ambassadors'! 

Thank you for the Hieronymous counsel, Anthony.

Are you sure you're not on anything?

....Not long got back from an 8 mile run... and that certainly helps to 'lighten the head'! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

i would like to veiw your works in real life, for hours on end.

Curtis, for a close-up view of how the grasses in Lighkeeper were painted see the Forum section, Acrylics, Painting Fine Lines in Acrylics HERE.

Ah Fergus you're both a grand artist and a magical marketer! Well done Mister R!

Ha!

A view at the Grand Opening of the Royal Hibernian Academy 182nd Annual Exhibition 2012, with Lightkeeper.

Happy to see that even in these times of constraint the Government of Ireland still purchases paintings for display in public buildings.