Description
‘MICROVERSE IV’ by Robert Steven Connett
Artist: Robert Steven Connett
Title: ‘MICROVERSE IV’
Medium: Acrylic on Wood Panel
Dimensions: 16” x 16”
Framing: Framed (Frame Size: 22” x 22”)
Year of Creation: 2017
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
“My painting, ‘MICROVERSE IV’ is the forth in a series of works dedicated to the microscopic world of life which exists all around us, and within us. I have always found the creatures that populate this world fascinating. Since I was a child I have often contemplated the beautiful life forms on the microscopic level. Beneath our perception is a world of life extremely varied and complex. We love to look outward into the heavens to contemplate the possibilities of life on other planets in other solar systems and galaxies. I often look the other way, down and deep beyond what which the human eye can see unaided by technology and imagination. I am pleasantly obsessed with the possibilities. My series of paintings called “The Microverse” brings together my imagined creatures and actual living things. Flora and Fauna and creatures of pure energy. These worlds that we seldom think of, are worlds that we are very much a part of.” – Robert Steven Connett
About the Artist:
Since he was a child, Robert S. Connett was fascinated by nature. And not just any type of nature, but the tiny worlds that quietly exist without being discovered. They thrive under rocks and under microscopes and Connett was the kid who went out looking for them, bringing home everything from spiders and earwigs to snakes. This perhaps explains the self-taught painter’s equally fascinating worlds he conjures on a canvas, often in painstaking detail. These “underworlds,” as Connett describes them, are often comprised of densely populated organisms. Some look like a droplet of seawater under a microscope. Others resemble a Where’s Waldo version of our amazing animal kingdom. Any could be a small square of Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” magnified hundreds of times. The organisms are a combination of accurate depictions based on scientific observation, as well as plucked from the artist’s own mind. They are worlds that Connett himself would want to walk into and we can’t blame him! – (Hi- Fructose)