This is a recent substantial reworking of an earlier painting formerly titled 'Night Watchman', although my initial idea was that the natural grouping of post-glacial 'erratics' in the limestone landscape of the Burren suggested a clandestine gathering in which the erect boulder is briefing the other attentive presences. The rook heightens the illusion. In the half-light the rocks take on apparently living forms. In the background a night watchman tends a fire whose smoke reaches the moon.

The Burren, in County Clare and County Galway, is an extraordinary Karst region of sheet limestone plates with deep 'grikes' in which sub-tropical wildflowers find shelter, although the area is at the same latitude as Labrador.

This painting is available from my studio in custom handmade framing.

Available for purchase from the artist