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Floating Islands
FLOATING ISLANDS ORIGINAL PAINTING 1993
MEDIUM Acrylic on Linen Canvas
Measurements 72” x 48”
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For over thirty years Roger has been obsessed by a vision of floating islands. There is something inescapably alluring about the idea of weightlessness, but Roger felt that such a surreal idea had to be expressed in a visually plausible way to create the sense of spaciousness and tranquillity he wanted to convey. The trees depicted are portraits of existing trees and the floating boulders they grow upon are modelled from sketches of rock formations.
These islands first appeared in his work in 1971, in the painting used for the cover of the Fragile album for Yes. Then they were fragments of a world breaking up. The islands recur in the painting for The Flights of Icarus, an illustrated book published by Paper Tiger in 1976
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