Paintpots & Daydreams

Oil & Graphite on Hardboard 18" x 18"

Oil on Hardboard 11" x 8"

Oil on Hardboard 24" x 24"

Part of my ongoing Project: 'Modern interpretations of Traditional Themes.' This one is for the myth 'The Abduction of Persephone.' On her collar I'm adding little wheat-sheaf's pattern and will continue it on her blouse, as that is one of her symbols, so as to identify her within a modern context. Persephone is is also the queen is the of the underworld after being abducted by Pluton and and tricked into being trapped there by Hades who gave her omegranate seeds to eat.

Part of my Modern Interpretation of Traditional Themes. This one representing the story of Apollo & Daphne a nymph whom fled from Apollo after being struck with a lead arrow from Eros and was turned into a Bay Laurel.

Part of my Modern Interpretation of Traditional Themes. This is for the story of 'Echo & Narcissus'. Echo was a talkative nymph cursed only to repeat the last word spoken to her. Spurned by Narcissus she fades away while he fell in love with his own reflection wastes away.

Part of my Modern Interpretation of Traditional Themes. This is for the story of 'Echo & Narcissus'. Echo was a talkative nymph cursed only to repeat the last word spoken to her. Spurned by Narcissus she fades away while he fell in love with his own reflection wastes away.

Or 'Psyche Entering the Garden of Eros' as it should really be. This is part of my on going Modern Pre-Raphaelite Project. I've added a statue of Eros in the background is based on the on a Piccadilly Circus, London by Alfred Gilbert. I've also added a Leptosia Nina butterfly (Psyche Butterfly) as a butterfly is on of Psyche's symbols in mythology and symbolises the soul. The myth of Cupid and Psyche was told by Apuleius in his book 'Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass'