Seething Landscape

By Paul D Robertson

Pastels, 110x 52 cms.

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This piece is fairly definitive of one of my major themes.

The figure in the foreground is me, and I am looking at my watch. This is meant to be in contrast to the figures floating into the sky and the incoming storm. It is about subjectivity - in the end, we are all ultimately self-involved as it is our own perceptions that govern us and we can never know another.

I am also, always, always, obsessed with time. It seems such a strange thing to me.

The piece has a bit of history too - one of my closest friends was interested in buying it, but at the same time I had no money to frame a similar piece that I wanted to enter into a competition. SO I made him a deal - if he paid for the framing of the other piece I would enter it into the competition and if it won he could have this one for the price of the framing. If it didn't win then I would give him a discount.

Oddly, it won, so this pierce is now in Tim Jackson's possession. The sister piece is called "Harbinger" and is on the same gallery in the webpage. It won the Katanning art award in 2002.