Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Old Man & The Sea
Medium : oil on linen
Dimensions : 152 x 102 cm 


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“Old Man and the Sea is a portrait of my uncle who was dying from lung cancer, hence the holes in his torso where the feeding tubes were placed. He died within days of me taking the photograph that this painting was made from. His strength always amazed me in life and all the more so in death. This is part memorial to him. The background is from a picture I took of the Atlantic Ocean on a trip I took to see my father for the last time… I wanted to intertwine these two worlds… where both of my father figures reside. There is something in the fragility of the body as it reaches its end that was quite beautiful - the bluish red and magenta veins wrapping around skin seeming to fade to white. The battle for the spiritual seems to be lifelong. It’s amazing to me that everyone dies.”