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rik rawling artist writer rik rawling artist writer artworks blog this site is now in a self induced coma i ll leave the galleries up until the domain name www rikrawling co uk expires at the end of december at which time i ll switch off the life support and it will die peacefully with no regrets thanks to everyone who has taken the time to look at my paintings and drawings over the years be assured that all is well and this is not a sudden and ill considered decision on my part it s something i ve been putting off for a year and i ve now run out of excuses not to see it through it s time to go and to paraphrase voltaire i may not know where i m going but i am on my way adieu share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading everlong everlong 2022 this is one of my favourite paintings from my own work but i ve no way of knowing what others make of it all i can say is that i waited about ten years to paint it patiently holding back until i had the appropriate skills in order to do it justice as unfashionable as it may be to admit this as if i care about such quaint concerns this was me honouring the influence of the pre raphaelite painters of the late 19th century i would rather look at the obsessive passionate and richly detailed work of millais holman hunt or rossetti than the crass cynical and kack handed daubs of today s contemporary painters and it was the influence of the former and my aggresive reaction to the latter that spurred me on to make this painting below are details of how it progressed from inception to completion pencils at 08 oct 2022 progress at 08 oct 2022 progress at 27 oct 2022 everlong 2022 finished painting at 22 nov 2022 as to who the model is i ve no idea and have no wish to know the mystery is what lies at the heart of what i was trying to express here and when it was completed i flailed around for the right title as usual most of the ones i considered were song titles ranging from metal heart soulsavers dave gahan and bryan ferry s slave to love to roxy music s avalon the latter being an allusion to guinevere from the arthurian legends but it was from avalon i went to the foo fighters everlong a song i ve liked for over 30 years now and one whose lyrics seemed to suit the painting perfectly first to eleven everlong foo fighters cover share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading tags art creativity painting portrait october 26 2024 paintings leave a comment cormac mccarthy suttree his subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams cormac mccarthy suttree this is my favourite novel of all time i re read this novel every couple of years just to immerse myself in it and be reinvigorated in terms of my own work and also to be reminded how high the bar has been raised in terms of unwavering dedication to personal expression mccarthy spent years and years writing this and it shows everything he d written preceding it was a prelude and everything since including significant books like blood meridian the border trilogy and the road have to be considered in its shadow it s not for everyone though the first few pages are a test as to whether you the reader are up to it here s a brief taster we are come to a world within a world in these alien reaches these maugre stinks and interstitial wastes that the righteous see from carriage and car another life dreams illshapen or black or deranged fugitive of all order strangers in everyland the night is quiet like a camp before battle the city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea the murengers have walled the pale the gates are shut but lo the thing s inside and can you guess his shape where he s kept or what s the counter of his face is he a weaver bloody shuttle shot through a time warp a carder of souls from the world s nap or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just suchwise that he s invited in too much for you i understand but it s a bold move to start a 500 page novel with language that makes james joyce and william faulkner look like dan brown that language is sustained throughout the entire novel one that is almost entirely plotless and all the better for it cornelius suttree lives alone in a shack on the tennessee river in knoxville he has abandoned his former life with suggestions of a wife and child and past tragedies to live amongst petty criminals drunks and derelicts he ekes out a meagre living selling fish caught in the river and spends it on bad food and the occasional drunken bender given the old testament gravitas of mccarthy s prose it s tempting to read this novel in allegorical terms with suttree s squalid exile a purgatory or a hell to which he has exiled himself perhaps driven by unreconcilable grief and regret determined to endure no matter what the tone is dark bleak and melancholy throughout and could be overwhelming were it not for the secondary cast of comedic characters including j bone hoghead callahan and especially the holy fool that is the teenager gene harrogate suttree meets gene in prison the younger man incarcerated for deviancy involving watermelons and they interact again and again throughout the book harrogate s irrepressible optimism and naive faith that his big break is just one madcap scheme away serves as a refreshing zephyr to the sometimes oppressive density of suttree s experience but as dark as it sometimes gets mccarthy let s in shafts of light he looked at a world of incredible loveliness old distaff celt s blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches with the oaks a cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead everything had fallen from him he scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care he lay on his back in the gravel the earth s core sucking his bones a moment s giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space over the offside of the planet hurtling through the high thin cirrus no one else writes like this no one else can though i m increasingly seeing mccarthy s influence on new writers and it s jarringly obvious because his use of language is so distinctive after suttree mccarthy eased back on the use of antique words and the suffusion of imagery which was necessary for the scope and subject matter of blood meridian or all the pretty horses suttree therefore stands unique as his most authentic and autobiographical expression of his interpretation of the world if i could only read one book for the rest of my life it would be this one the mock up cover above uses my 2011 portrait of bill callahan i m new here i m new here portrait of bill callahan 2010 share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading may 14 2017 book covers paintings leave a comment contact e rik rawling gmail com www rikrawling co uk galleries artworks blog create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed rik rawling join 171 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy rik rawling subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website d design a site like this with wordpress com get started