"Death Comes" 16"x20" c.2006 m.easton

Death Comes

16”x20”

Acrylic on Canvas, 3/4" stretcher

$325.00 Framed, plus shipping and handling

With “Death Comes” I knew I had reached a new level of painting. I had been working on a painting for several days and it wasn’t coming together. The parts were beautiful, but the overall painting wasn’t working (see related news article). So I took the remaining colors on my palette and painted over the existing painting. With harsh and fast brush strokes I painted a rough, stormy blue/black background. Some of the color of the under painting showed through and the texture of the original came through.

I sat with the painting for a couple of days and in the texture, the ridges of the original I began to see motion, agitation. I went to bed that night and got up a couple of hours later, possessed! Came out to my easel feeling a strong energy moving through me, using the outlines of texture I saw a dark horse coming. I painted the pegasus using blacks, blues and purples, staying away from a whole lot of definition. It felt like something was surging across the canvas, something hard to see, movement, harsh and violent.

The painting is hard to look at in that it’s hard to pinpoint anything, there appears to be real movement. I felt this was death, something we choose as a society not to look to closely at, that we certainly don’t know that well. And, despite what anyone says, we don’t actually, really know what happens after we die.

If I look closely at this painting, get by all the motion, confusion and stories, there is for me incredible grace and beauty and wonder.

With my painting I have come to love texture and encourage people to actually touch my paintings and look at them from different angles and light. This painting really taught me the importance of under painting and under texture creating story for the finished painting.

This painting is available, if you are interested in purchasing it contact me.

“Such beauty, and such motion you have captured. That dark dream horse really calls to me”

C.P., Ohio