Ocean of Flatness

Original oil and acrylic on canvas

40x40cm unframed

As I get older the names of my Grand and Great Grand parents get louder but at the same time strangely less clear, I don’t understand them in the way I was certain I did in my twenties, Hendry, Campbell, Frazer, Davies the list is a DNA marker somehow detailed yet vague. Alexander Frazer lies in a graveyard in Inverness not far from the moor that gave its name to the ocean of flatness.

"We followed you, Prince, to this ocean of flatness and bullets.".
-Aonghas Macneacail.

The painting conversely is of a little road on the West Coast in Argyl and Bute. So the painting too is a mixture of influences and places, just like us.