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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 35.4x23.6in
About this artwork
In this realistic oil painting, I captured the quiet, fascinating power of nature. The barren ground and the solitary tree represent perseverance and life despite adversity. The dramatic clouds in the sky add tension and depth to the image. This work is intended to bring calm and contemplative energy to any space it adorns. The adversities represent the stress of vegetation growing over weathered soil that also contains precious metals. Here, Agricola…
says:
“Dry earth containing metal or ore is a good sign, and if it is yellow, red, black, or otherwise prominently colored, and a find of malachite, azurite, copper green, orpiment, or realgar is considered a good sign.”
Georgius Agricola vulgo Georg Bauer, 1494-1555
“Dry earth containing metal or ore is a good sign, and if it is yellow, red, black, or otherwise prominently colored, and a find of malachite, azurite, copper green, orpiment, or realgar is considered a good sign.”
Georgius Agricola vulgo Georg Bauer, 1494-1555
Peter Volk
Germany
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Peter Volk is a painter with academic training, working with oil, acrylic, watercolor, and sculptural techniques. He combines strong colors, subtle gradients, and color field painting, often with hyperrealistic elements, depicting landscapes, people, and rock art in surprising combinations. His works radiate a longing for authentic beauty and invite the viewer to see hidden and familiar facets of the world with new eyes.