Alexander

Lucas Davey
 
Alexander
 
Acrylic on Canvas Board / Acrylig ar Fwrdd Cynfas
 
Few are aware that, like the extinct auroch, these muscular and majestic creatures once roamed the landscape of Britain in great herds many thousands of years ago, and so I wanted to evoke their presence and honour their memory by creating this painting, ‘Alexander’. The name of the painting, ‘Alexander’, comes from the tenacious Macedonian general and king, Alexander the Great, who conquered half of Europe and even parts of Asia. While I was painting, I listened to Alexander the Great’s trials and triumphs and could not help but imagine and pray for the day when the great herds of European and North American bison might once again reclaim their vast grassy empires, just as Alexander had done all those millennia before.
 
Ychydig sy’n ymwybodol, fel yr auroch diflanedig, fod y creaduriaid cyhyrog a mawreddog hyn ar un adeg wedi crwydro tirwedd Prydain mewn buchesi mawr filoedd o flynyddoedd yn ôl, ac felly roeddwn i eisiau dwyn i gof eu presenoldeb ac anrhydeddu eu cof trwy greu’r paentiad hwn, ‘Alexander’. Daw enw’r paentiad, ‘Alexander’, gan y cadfridog a’r brenin Macedonaidd dyfal, Alecsander Fawr, aorchfygodd hanner Ewrop a hyd yn oed rhannau o Asia. Tra roeddwn i'n peintio, gwrandewais ar dreialon a buddugoliaethau Alecsander Fawr ac ni allwn helpu ond dychmygu a gweddïo am y diwrnod y gallai buchesi mawr buail Ewrop a Gogledd America adennill eu hymerodraethau glaswelltog helaeth unwaith eto, yn union fel y gwnaeth Alecsander y cyfan y milenia hynny o'r blaen.
 
Mount Size: 43cm x 52cm
 
Limited edition of 75
 
£180