Description

The Journey

Original artwork by Navy Sloth

The Journey is inspired by childhood memories of long car trips — day excursions, family holidays and the quiet hours spent gazing out at the passing landscape.

As the world moved by, fields and hedgerows dissolved into a blur of colour, pattern and light. In that half-awake, dreamlike state, my attention would drift between the landscape and the sky above, where clouds became imagined worlds, figures and stories.

There was something wonderfully absorbing about those journeys. Watching the world rush past while your imagination wandered somewhere completely different. Sometimes awake, sometimes daydreaming, never quite sure where one ended and the other began.

The two canvases capture that feeling of movement and interruption — like catching a glimpse of the landscape through a blink, before everything carries on moving again.

But really, The Journey isn’t about a particular place. It’s about that lovely feeling of being carried along somewhere, with nothing to do but look, wonder and let your imagination wander.

A little piece of childhood, a little bit of countryside and a whole lot of daydreaming.

Details:

Size: 40cm x 81cm (each canvas is 40cm x 40cm and I recommend a 1cm gap in between both)
Medium: Oil paint and oil pens on canvas
Framing: unframed