John Slavin Art

Black Fountain Tempesta

A distant blue summer evening is seen from a dark star. Grey rock enters shadow black shape, grains of white upon it. The foot of star mountain is a carpet of tiny pine trees. On the mountain formal patterns of rock-snow snow-rock break the eye up into mercurial yet static detail. The frozen trees on my right, as hail fell, were reappointed with white. Sinister clouds sweep in, large and obscuring. Through the storm I am given an opening to create a metaphor for the human eye. Also titled 'East of the Black Fountain' Andorra. [In the private collection of Robert Fell @ 10/22]

Original
Acrylic on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre
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The Valley of the Magdalen Beltane Moon

Beltane 2015 and the moon is on the wane above the tall trunks of the beech trees found along the shady banks of the River Salz. Mary Magdalen left the Holy Land and came to France with the Mother of God. Alone, in silence she spent thirty years in a wooded space, through which a river ran centrally, hills and mountains were surrounding. This is a painting of that space, identified as the Valley of the River Salz.

The painting is available from the Scottish Storytelling Centre 6-31 October in the exhibition Land of the Ravens.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Can be seen at Tyrrell Art Gallery
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Galbe

A full moon on the way up and out of the deep Gorges de l'Aude brings storms. Beside a torrential river the air is torrential. The birch leaves are yet to come into being. Wind over the River Galbe is loud and the forest shrinks to needles.

The Painting is available in Land of the Ravens exhibition at Scottish Storytelling Centre 6-31 October 2022.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre

Black Mountain Blue Oak

Above the remains of last winter yet before the advent of spring the eye looks across the hibernating lands to the crepuscular horizon of the Black Mount. This painting is available in Land of the Ravens exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre 6-31 October 2022.

Original
Oil on canvas
61cm x 50cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre
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April Snow Canigou

Canigou is distant, still, cold with April snow. Roses and ciste and thorn twine on rock. This painting is available in Land of the Ravens exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre 6-31 October 2022.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre

Bacou

As our planet turns towards night long shadows finger the farmland of Bacou on its high plateau. Bacou is Bacchus.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 60cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre

Crystal Park

Between two dead pines left and a leafy linden tree right, the blood of dawn coils over and on the peak of Canigou. We are in a particular forest of many needles shortly after dawn. The moment is becoming crystal clear.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 50cm
Can be seen at Tyrrell Art Gallery
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