As Far as the Eye Can See VI ©John O’Grady
(click on the painting to see it enlarged)
20″ x 47.5″ x 1.75″
Oil on deep edge canvas, ready to hang
I’ve been working on this large piece for a while, with many faltering steps until things started to fall into place this past week.
I don’t know whether the confinement had an impact on the making of it, bringing up a natural yearning for open spaces and distant vistas but this is how the painting came to the end of its journey, somewhere off the west coast of Ireland looking across the panorama of mountains that sweep down to the ocean.
Also, some of you may be confined at home like we are in France so here is a short list of art galleries you can visit virtually and added a couple of other cultural resources you may enjoy.
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris?hl=en
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery?hl=en
http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/take-a-virtual-tour-of-30-world-class-museums.html
https://hyperallergic.com/547919/2500-virtual-museum-tours-google-arts-culture/
https://www.operadeparis.fr/actualites/spectacles-de-lopera-de-paris-a-redecouvrir-en-ligne
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/
Keep safe and well. Take care of yourselves and loved ones.
Thank you for this stunning land- and skyscape, John. I’ve always been drawn to meandering roads, distant views, and indistinct horizons (all of which you interpret so beautifully) but can attest to their heightened appeal in recent days. The eye and mind can wander freely here. The warm foreground is a lovely visual anchor and counterpoint to all that cool serenity. Love your treatment of the light as it limns the clouds and reflects off the water.
Many thanks also for compiling all those links to cultural resources. So very welcome during this uncertain period of physical confinement.
I hope you and yours are safe and well and remain so.
You’re very welcome Jo, I hope you find the links useful, I was particularly taken by the opera links. I thought this painting might connect with you. The ‘meandering roads, distant views and indistinct horizons’ certainly have all the ingredients.
Take care
Thank you so very much for this gorgeous painting of openness and for your thoughtfulness in adding the links. Your work always give me great pleasure when it lands in my inbox – and I am sure that will be even truer at the moment.
I wish you and yours all the best for the future.
Hi Kathy,
Good to hear that you’re enjoying the paintings in your inbox.
You’re very welcome, hopefully you’ll find the links useful.
Take care
I felt myself breathe in and my eyes open wide when I opened up this wonderful painting in its larger view; it could be said that I opened my mind up to it too. Such an open expansive vista encourages us to range our eyes across the whole canvas, across the grassy foreground, over the mountains, along the meandering path and down to the sea. Then our eyes are drawn up to the subtle light and colour of the cloudy sky. It is a journey well worth taking John; like oening a window on the world. Thank you for the list of links which will also free the soul in the confined weeks that lie ahead.
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Yes the open vista hopefully helps to open the mind and take us on a little journey.
You’re very welcome concerning the links, I hope you find them useful.