Carousel II
Artist: Daniel Loveday
- Size: 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inches (100 x 100 x 2.5 cm)
- Acrylic on canvas
- One-Off / Ready to Send
- No Frame Required
About the artwork
I've used the carousel motif, similar to a previous painting, but this time set smaller in a large canvas. It symbolises my concerns about an environment, the only environment we have, driven to the brink by a system that we are complicit in but has short term benefits. Amongst the sea animals circling the fragile glass globe there is the Steller Sea Cow. This is the one that looks a little like a seal in the top left corner, it was discovered in 1741 on an island in the Berring sea and was 30ft in length. It was made extinct within 27 years of it's discovery by human predation.
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PaintingsWaterWildlifeLarge (30 - 48")AcrylicCreamBrownGreenPurpleAbstractSurrealism
Daniel Loveday
I think of myself as a storyteller as much as an artist. My concerns for the environment are reflected in my surreal and symbolic paintings. At the same time I experiment with techniques in the form of abstracts. I trained for two years at foundation level, doing life drawing and print and then I began a degree at Exeter Art College. After which I became a graphic designer during which time I did a lot of commercial art, usually illustrating everything from wildlife in a park, to steam trains, to cartoon characters. I was a nursing auxiliary at The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. I encounter all sorts of people who themselves are going on journeys. It fascinated me how they deatl with that journey. Many suffered from dementia, other... (see more)
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