Working from a previous painting of mine depicting a cobbled village street, I decided to erase and rework. I sanded and painted a golden gesso. Then I drew organic shapes thinking to demonstrate how nature takes back human construction, instead a veritable wealth of strange and colourful figures sprang forth and I thought of folktales such as those of the Brothers Grimm. I had some other paintings I worked in the same style and a fairy/folk tale series evolved.

Gesso, oil paint, graphite.