Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses is fully varnished in a UV protective, permanent acrylic varnish and comes ready to hang.

Signed by the artist, the certificate of authenticity includes the work’s exhibition history, details, and care instructions.

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Acrylic on canvas
25" x 25"

Gallery wrapped and ready to hang.

This fully varnished original painting comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.

In this detailed painting of false color Pluto, much of the planet's surface is rendered with a palette knife to bring to life the rocky, mountainous surface of what is one of our solar system's most distant planets. Craters dot the pockmarked landscape, sealed behind high gloss varnish in stark contrast to the velvety, matte black backdrop of space.

In Book V of his Metamorphoses, the poet Ovid recounts a version of the rapture of Proserpina.

The Roman mythology describes Pluto's love of Proserpina, triggered by the arrow of Cupid, causing him in his obsession to kidnap Proserpina and spirit her away to the underworld he rules.

The daughter of Ceres, a goddess of spring, and Jupiter, the tale of Proserpina is the archetypal story of the seasons: of life, death, and rebirth. Mourned by her mother who holds the earth hostage in the death of winter awaiting Proserpina's return, Pluto relents—halfway—and allows Proserpina to return to her mother for six months of each year. He ensures her return to him by commanding her to eat six seeds of a pomegranate—one for each month she must return to him—for those who have eaten the food of the dead cannot return to the world of the living. Ensconced as his queen, they rule the dead as equals—and unlike many mythological marriages, loyal to each other: jealous, or obsessive, even.

A stunning conversation piece sure to delight the avid stargazer, you can read more about the creation of Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses in my blog post at Uranus in the 5th House.