Der Ring

"But Wagner like a rushing whirlwind storms us, and despot like, submission doth demand."
These words, written by a colleague, aptly summed up the man and his music.
The mythologically based "Ring cycle" which took him the best part of twenty five years to complete was strangely prophetic of a crisis in civilisation.

My painting Niebelungen, above, borrows Wagner's Leitmotive musical device with which the composer characterized the important events of his operas with repetitive themes. These announced and emphasized the entry of a significant player into the unfolding drama.

A restless and fussy painting in keeping with it's subject.