Russian Magic Tales From Pushkin to Platanov

2016: Acrylic on canvas, 140cm x 120cm

Various - Russian Magic Tales From Pushkin to Platanov

This collection of magical, sometimes disturbing tales often under the influence of Baba Yaga, shows a diversity of depth of colour all of it intensely symbolic. There is a lot of vying for gold in fairy tales. And the malachite mines of the Urals and the 'Mistress of the Copper Mountain' who protects or haunts them also provides a source for the vivid greens and metallic colours in this painting.