Painting by _ Tillian _ 86 Artworks Sold

‘Lucifer Fallen’

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122cm (W) x 80cm (H) x 2cm (D)

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Artwork Description

Two white stars shine above a scene of vibrant collapse. In this work, I invoke the myth of Lucifer—the fallen light-bringer—through swirling, abstract forms and a charged, symbolic palette. The stars serve as both destination and memory and the fallen star at the bottom corner is not just cast out—it still glows, however dimly. The bowed figure at the upper right emerges like a specter of exile, while a sinuous serpent plunges to the left, evoking descent and rupture. The divine figure’s face is soft-edged, shadowed, nearly indistinct—less a person, more a force of cosmic inevitability. The sweeping red-orange arc through the center suggests either a burning wing or a serpentine trail. My painting becomes a metaphysical terrain: not only a narrative of rebellion, but a meditation on inner fragmentation, cosmic dislocation, and spiritual estrangement. Its rich hues and restless gestures mirror the turbulence of a world where myth and psyche intersect, a visual hymn to the tragedy of rebellion, the beauty of defiance, and the cost of divine ambition.

Artist Bio

Tillian lives and works in Bundanoon, a highland village bordering the vast gorges of the Morton National Park. He studied painting, film and photography at Alexander Mackie Art School, Sydney and more recently completed a Master of Creative Arts at Wollongong University. He has had five solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows. Influenced by Indian ritual art, Aboriginal desert painting and Western art traditions, Tillian’s landscape paintings are visual narratives tracing passages and patterns in cyclic time and space. Works are constructed on site during lengthy sessions of immersion in the act of painting and the "happening of place".

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_ Tillian's studio is in Bundanoon, NSW.