About Set Free
The painting depicts a captivating landscape scene with a sense of urgency and movement. In the foreground, a grassy field stretches across the canvas, its blades seemingly bending in a unified direction. Beyond the grass, a dense forest looms, its trees packed tightly together, creating a wall of green and brown hues.
Emerging from the depths of the forest, a lone figure can be seen running. The person appears to be fleeing from something unseen within the woods, adding an element of mystery and tension to the composition.
On one edge of the Set free painting, a clothesline is visible, with various garments hanging from it. The clothes flutter in an implied wind, their forms elongated and stretched towards the same focal point as everything else in the painting.
What makes this artwork particularly striking is the technique employed by the artist. Every brushstroke in the painting, from the grass in the foreground to the trees in the forest, and even the clouds in the sky above, is directed towards a single point in the forest – the spot from which the person is running. This creates a powerful sense of movement and draws the viewer’s eye inexorably towards that mysterious point of origin.
The sky, too, participates in this visual effect. The clouds are stretched and elongated, their wispy forms all pointing towards the same spot in the forest, enhancing the overall sense of motion and urgency in the scene.
This unique approach to the brushwork imbues the painting with a dynamic energy, suggesting both movement and an unseen force that seems to be pulling everything in the composition towards that single, enigmatic point in the forest.
140 cm x 95 cm
Created 2023.
Acrylic on canvas.