MH17

I had been trying to express my feeling about the fate of the 298 passengers and crew of MH17 by painting portraits of three of the loved ones of the victims. It was not working – maybe in one of the paintings I captured the grief and in another the anger but for them to be relevant they have to be both relations and in the airport – that was proving a problem. The paintings are too invasive of the privacy they have a right to in their grief.

But I have found that if I am going to address this subject then I have to take the challenge of painting the terrible images you see when an airliner full of people has crashed. I have the broken plane like Nash’s graveyard of German Planes shot down. Now I have the graveyard of MH17 and her 298 passengers  shot from the sky in a senseless act of inhumanity.

The painting is oil on board and measures 110x110cm image