This is part of a series of local landscapes I have been working on for the last couple of years. It seeks to capture our derelict goat shed. It is a recapitulation of the first painting in the series, https://ianflemingart.com/the_goat_shed, which holds particular meaning to me as beginning my professional practice as a painter.
The reference images for this latest painting were taken as I ran into our backyard in a rainstorm, seeking a particularly dramatic development of the earlier painting. Both are atmospheric but where ‘The goat shed’ was foreboding, ‘breaking storm’ is tempestuous. I see a natural progression in the two works: the earlier painting preceding the breaking storm.
This work is the largest I have painted and brings together my love of my home and painting rural landscapes, clouds, doom and gloom and highly detailed foregrounds..
Painted in oil on 36″x24″ canvas in April 2004. Framed in Tasmanian blackwood with a beeswax polish.
Currently on sale at Sutton Village Gallery
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