Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

As a regular traveller to locations of wildlife around the globe, the one subject that inspires me other than the wildlife itself are the very different skies i have experienced. Similar in geography for the red earth and the big skies, is the continent of Africa. The storms , the brooding clouds, cracking lightning all invigorate the feeling of the landscape and the wildlife signal the onset of the wet season with their re-surfacing amphibians and birds arriving. My colours are selected from the real thing, carefully mixed to heighten my experience and share that as an extended moment in time on a canvas. Oil paint as a traditional time-tested archival medium, allows me to capture the luminous quality of the sun behind the clouds, in layers that build the image into an artwork that remains timeless for both the imagery and the medium.