37. Breath of Heaven – oil on canvas (15 by 21)

‘Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.’ (Rembrandt) Another symbolic representation of their transition from one world to another – ‘Mates, I draw closer to the end and I find my life travels in a circle and gets nearer to the beginning.'(early echoes of T.S.Elliot?) So spoke one of the mutineers before he was hung. Here we accompany Thomas Ellison again and see a way through the ruins of the past to an unknown future and are invited to enter – a common preoccupation now as it was in 1792.

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