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Barlowe's Inferno

Barlowe's Inferno

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Even though he worked roughly two hundred years ago there is yet a transcendent majesty to William Blake’s vivid, mystical painting’s and etchings. Equipped with two massive bone-hammers and a heavy chin-blade these greatly enlarged souls are the once-cruel rulers of Asian empires transformed by the Demon Major Yen Wang to suit his needs. The only solution that satisfied my world’s internal logic was to riff on the concept behind Agares’ steed as depicted in the INFERNO book.

A tangle of streets beyond count, the city’s arteries are clogged with work-gangs of souls and demons of every description. The visual idiom that I created in this piece, from the colors to the archi-organic forms to the look of the demons, has found its way into nearly every subsequent Hell painting I’ve done. These are works reminiscent of painter John Martin, whose own vistas of Hell hang in the world's finest museums. Limited to just 150 copies individually signed and numbered by the artist himself, Barlowe's Inferno collects these amazing depictions of hell inside of a splendid cloth slipcase and includes a signed print, suitable for framing. She then wrote to American publisher DAW, known for it's fantasy and horror selections, who immediately accepted her manuscript and published the book in 1975.

To me the most difficult part of this painting’s concepting was whether or not to add a question mark after the title. Aware that their era is coming to a close, their heightened bitterness compels them to acts of wanton aggression against any intruders who stray into their territories. Built to commemorate those lost in the War with Heaven it also serves as the headquarters for Dis’ military.

The devil is in the details and it took quite some time to work out all of the motifs from a design standpoint. This party is fortunate in having a few important Demons Minor amongst their number and would probably be safe enough in any short journey within their own kingdom.There have been so many “evil” buildings rendered in paintings and for film that I was consciously trying not repeat anything I’d seen before. I had a rough to work from and then, brush in hand, “grew” the figures on the board with layers of detail. The Examination – (from Barlowe’s Inferno – acrylic on ragboard) – While souls are treated as a resource by demons in an unthinkable number of ways in Hell, a true understanding of them as once-living organisms on a physical level is absent.



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