Carle Hessay: Homestead

Carle Hessay: Homestead

This small painting is somewhat unusual in Hessay's repertoire in terms of its colours and surrealistic effect. It demonstrates his ongoing exploration of a theme close to his heart: the remains of early settlements he came upon during his prospecting trips into the deep wilderness regions of the West Coast. The charged atmosphere and strange lighting effects challenge the viewer's imagination about the substantiality of this homestead as if some cosmic upheaval is occurring at the very moment it is being recorded.

(Dimensions: 10 3/4 inches x 7 inches; 27.3 x 17.8 cm.; oil based paint on canvas paper; no date; signed and titled on the back)