With Soft Foot Towards the Deep

Posted on 29th February 2012 Posted in Paradise Lost, Seascapes, Still Life, TexturesLeave a comment

From standing lake to tripping ebb,
That stole with soft foot towards the deep,
Who now had stopped his sluices,
As the Heaven his windows shut.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

One Gate There Only Was

Posted on 27th February 2012 Posted in Painting, Paradise Lost, ProgressTagged Seascapes

As one continu’d brake, the undergrowth
Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplext
All path of Man or Beast that past that way:
One Gate there onely was, and that look’d East

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Cement, acrylic, collage, found organic material, Copper, PVA on canvas.

71 x71cm (28″sq)

2012

Shots below made at stages of progress

Chaos Judge of Strife

Posted on 25th February 2012 Posted in Mixed Media, Painting, Paradise Lost, Progress

….when everlasting Fate shall yeild
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

John Milton, Paradise Lost.

cement and mixed media (acrylic medium, paint, crayon, PVA, ink) with embedded found objects on canvas.

71 x 71 cm (28″ x 28″)

2012

Images during stages of progress.

A Suspension of Disbelief

Posted on 20th February 201223rd May 2019 Posted in Painting, Paradise Lost, Progress

…he had of me
All he could have; I made him just and right,
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
John Milton: Paradise Lost.

Milton’s God reacts to Man’s foreseeable fall by his plan of grace, …. Milton’s idea of grace is not “irresistible,” but “conditional” upon Man’s choice to accept or refuse it. For Milton, Man does not have the “will” to save himself, but can choose to be “saved” by a will that can save him.

From “Free will and necessity in Milton’s Paradise Lost”.
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/gib_fw.html

Acrylic media, pva, found materials, crayon

Stages of progress below;

From the original snap through cropping,