Original artwork description:

Acrylic and pencil on board, ready to hang.

One of a series of works dedicated to death and how human beings express themselves in the face of it.

Throughout my cemetery wanderings I've started to notice patterns, touching clichés and recurring imagery. This is not one of those. I've never seen a huge tomb adorned with what look like cow skulls, I was drawn in straight away.

It turned out to be the grave of French painter Paul Chevanard, check out his vast painting 'Divina tragedia' in scale and skill it is immense.

Drawn and painted onto my own work, you'll find some of those recurring words and images I see again and again in the graveyards I visit, as well as the beautiful, simple phrase 'Tschüss ma poule' . A more meaningful way to say goodbye than all the elegant carvings in the world.

I had some fun trying to add texture into this painting, as the carving on the tomb was rendered in a very gritty stone.

Materials used:

Acrylic and pencil on wooden board

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