Oil on linen

Signed on the front.

This is the largest of a series of still life paintings I played with for an exhibition themed on 'what lies beneath', the sights and questions we don't always consider in our busy day to day lives. The bullet holes make we wonder about the story of this fellow's life and his likely untimely end. I enjoyed the quiet calm of the colours that invite contemplation and the gentle contrasts between the blue shadows on the cloth and the warm orange of the skull and intentinally wanted the straight-on composition to pay tribute to Georgia O'Keefe's wonderful cow skull paintings.