Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3

Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3 by Frank Brennan, a square oil painting filled with vivid orange, red, blue, green and white flower-like and organic forms.

Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3

Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Size: 100 × 100 × 4 cm

In this third painting, the flower-like forms that had begun to appear in the previous two works are now much more recognisable.

Given that the series had begun as a response to what is happening in the world, some of them now have a slightly threatening, carnivorous quality.

Predators lurking among all that colour and exuberance. I like that tension.

 

Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing the large orange flower-like form with radiating white strokes and a mottled red-and-green centre.
Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing a vivid red and orange flower-like form with a jagged dark, tooth-like mark across its centre.
Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing an orange flower-like form with a red slit-shaped centre among green, blue and white forms.
Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing a small orange-and-red flower amid flowing green, blue, grey and pink brushwork.
Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing two deep red flower-like forms, one with a jagged dark centre and another with curling pink and white bands.
Detail of Responding to the Darkness Descending – Painting 3, showing sweeping blue, turquoise and green organic forms with visible brushwork.

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Other works

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The Silver Beast of Conquest by Frank Brennan, an abstract oil painting with a pale silver beast-like form dragging itself across fields of red, blue and brown.

The Silver Beast of Conquest

Oil paint on linen

Sunflower by Frank Brennan, an oil painting with thick sculpted paint at the flower’s centre, flat angular seed-like forms radiating outwards and carved marks revealing the wood beneath.

Sunflower

Oil paint on Gessobord

But the blink… by Frank Brennan

But the blink…
Oil paint on canvas