Description
‘STARRY DIPLOCAULUS’ by Robert Steven Connett
Artist: Robert Steven Connett
Title: ‘STARRY DIPLOCAULUS’
Medium: Acrylic on sealed wood panel
Dimensions: 16″ x 12″
Framing: Framed (Frame Size: 21″ x 17″ approx.)
Year of Creation: 2019
About the Artwork:
“The Diplocaulus was an ancient amphibian, now extinct. Many archeologists are fascinated with it’s strange arrow shaped head. Since I was a child, I have been fascinated by this creature. There are excellent complete fossils showing it’s strangely shaped head and basic structure, but no one really knows about the color or body markings. In my imagination I see a beautiful complex creature with floral camouflage as you see in this piece.” – Robert Steven Connett
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Robert Steven Connett is a self taught artist currently living in Los Angeles California. His beautifully realized visions of an unseen world teeming with vibrant and complex lifeforms, opens windows into a universe that we rarely contemplate. Microscopic biological phenomena of the natural world, both flora and fauna, and particularly that of oceanic origins, provides Connett with bountiful inspirations. His colorful imagination ensure his creations rise above the natural and inhabit a sphere somewhere between the familiar and the extraordinary. Connett masterfully brings a sumptuous and bizarre underworld into existence.