The Last Landscape

I had a chuckle last weekend when I saw this on display on the back patio at my parents’ home. I painted this when I was either 15 or 17 (I can’t quite make out the date of the signature), but I am pretty sure it was one of the very few naturalistic landscapes I ever painted. It is an entirely imagined view, and I remember working on it in my high school art classes, with my teacher guiding me on technique. It was possibly the very first oil painting I created. Eventually I moved on from oils, and now my favourite media for drawing are oil pastels, charcoal, and soft pastels (in that order). Any strange or surreal landscapes I create still come entirely from my mind’s eye though.