‘Cima Dome Fire XIII’, framed monoprint, 71x100cm, Framed

‘Cima Dome Fire XIII’ was selected for the Thelma Hulbert Gallery Open 2023 in Devon, and subsequently sold.

I’d been planning on some new, larger monoprints of Joshua Trees for the Tree Portraits Series for a while,
but it took a while to decide on the images to work from,
and then where to take that imagery concerning what I had created before.

I wanted as stark and real a landscape of the desolation wreaked by the Cima Dome wildfire of 3 years ago in the Mojave National Preserve, but I was keen to include elements of mysticism and transcendence that feel apt for such a vulnerable species,
along with some more abstract elements to create a better sense of dynamism in the composition.