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Original artwork description:
The Way Out is the Way Through is a 30x30inches oil on canvas of a dark forest with sunlight shining through the trees and showing a way out. It is intended to be menacing but also hopeful. The symbolism of dark forests is ingrained into humans as a species. Forests have always been both protectors and sources of danger. I painted this painting as I was trying to solve a long-term difficult issue in my own life and this painting seemed to symbolise that effort. The title is actually from a quote by L. Ron Hubbard and it means that in order to resolve stuff, the only effective way is to face the thing and find a way through it, rather than dodge it or hide from it. I like the idea and I like the metaphor that a dark forest provides. It is painted on deep edge canvas, edges dark and does need a frame.
Materials used:
oil on canvas
Tags:
#trees #woodland #sunlight #hope #inspirational art #forests #woodland path #dark forestThe Way Out is the Way Through (2023) Oil painting
by Gill Bustamante
14 Artist Reviews
£1,350 Sold
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.81cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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Original artwork description
The Way Out is the Way Through is a 30x30inches oil on canvas of a dark forest with sunlight shining through the trees and showing a way out. It is intended to be menacing but also hopeful. The symbolism of dark forests is ingrained into humans as a species. Forests have always been both protectors and sources of danger. I painted this painting as I was trying to solve a long-term difficult issue in my own life and this painting seemed to symbolise that effort. The title is actually from a quote by L. Ron Hubbard and it means that in order to resolve stuff, the only effective way is to face the thing and find a way through it, rather than dodge it or hide from it. I like the idea and I like the metaphor that a dark forest provides. It is painted on deep edge canvas, edges dark and does need a frame.
Materials used:
oil on canvas
Tags:
#trees #woodland #sunlight #hope #inspirational art #forests #woodland path #dark forest
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Artist Reviews (14)
Gill Bustamante
United Kingdom
About
I am a professional artist based in Sussex and I paint large original landscape and seascape paintings in oil on canvas. I have a Fine Art degree in sculpture (Brighton,... Read more