Dates & Ghosts

Artist: C J Lewis
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Print: from US$28.50

Dates & Ghosts

This is of an area on the road to Arakoon near Kempsey, NSW, Australia where date palms and ghost gums grow together.

The photograph of this art is straight from the negative (shot on film camera) and has no enhancements, filters or fancy doodahs added to it via a computer.

ORIGINAL ART GIVEN TO KEMPSEY ART GALLERY OWNER WHO INSPIRED ME THE DO THIS PAINTING

THIS PAINTING IS BEST VIEWED LARGE

Also available as a Card

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Australia as named by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1565-1615) – Portugese born explorer in the service of Spain who made important discoveries in the Pacific.

Quiros gave the name ‘Australia Del Espiritu Santo (Australia of the Spiritual Saint) to the Great Southern Continent…the nation of Australia today.

MCN: C1E53-CC78F-21915

Dates & Ghosts belongs to the following groups:

Complex Simplicity of Art, "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), ***♂♥♥QUORN♥♥♀, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Art in Math, Aussie Bush Paintings, Australia! You're Standing In it...., Contemporary Professional Painters and Sculptors, Core [C.O.R.E], Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Extremely Positive, Fine Arts, Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, Landscape Painting, Live, Love, Dream: , Mysteries of the Common(2 per day), Oil Painting, Painters In Modern Times - TWO PER DAY, Realist Traditional Art, Shameless Self-Promotion, Solo Exhibition, Sydney's Guide to Exhibitions, The Patchwork , The true beauty, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point and Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day Available for sale as

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Wendy Slee

this is beautiful….. almost ghostly…..I love the blues….
C J Lewis replied

Thanks Wendy. It was just like that in the area…very misty…gorgeous area.
StacyLee

Love the colors in this painting :)
C J Lewis replied

Hi StacyLee, thanks.
dimarie

another beautiful painting!
love it!
C J Lewis

Thanks Jodi :)
Gallery owner at Kempsey asked me to go to that spot and paint it so I did. He wanted the ghostly light captured, which I feel I accomplished doing for him. I loved painting it as it gave me such a serene feeling the entire time of working on it.
This painting is no longer in my possession as is in private collection in Kempsey, NSW, Australia.
Virginia McGowan

congratulations on the sale of this, I know how they two types of trees look together really beautiful Lovely painting.
C J Lewis replied

Hi Ginny, thanks, Yes, those two trees do go well together. I see them as one solid and hardy (dates) and the other as tall but fragile with a majestic air.
I didn’t sell it…I gave it to the Gallery owner who asked me to paint it. I’ve never sold a painting in my life…didn’t think they were good enough…all given as gifts to those who liked them :)
C J Lewis replied

Must add Ginny that I did get wrapped over the knuckles, so to say, by an artist who told me I was not to give my art away for nothing…so I don’t anymore :)
Vicky Brago-Mi...

Lovely impressionistic flavor and colors!
C J Lewis replied

Thanks Vicky :)