Artwork description:

An abstract impressionist landscape inspired by the red sandy deserts of the United States, with their rocky barren plains and rugged cliffs and canyons. With a stormy sky and a streak of lightning.

This is part of my Bunker series, created from photographing details of WW2 defence concrete bunkers and gun emplacements from around Britain's coast.
These abstract landscapes are created naturally over time from the weathering and ageing of the concrete and rust from bolts and nails embedded in the walls, which creates an image like an ancient piece of primitive rock art.

In this series I have tried to show that even simple, neglected, often over looked, mundane and in this case ugly and terrible places have beauty hidden within them.
These photos have not been manipulated in any way, apart from light photo editing (cropping and exposure adjustment) and as such can be seen in situ around Britain's coastline.

Professionally printed on Hahnemühle archival quality paper using the latest archival quality inks.
Image size 12" x 12" paper size 14" x 14"

Materials used:

Archival ink on paper

Tags:

#natural #distressed #primitive #abstract impressionist #modern contemporary #concrete wall #tribal #industrial decay #red ochre #impressionistic views #rock art #abstract photo #urban graffiti #north american #western desert