Oil painting on linen

Size: 90cm by 70cm by 3.5cm

A vignette silhouette of the romantic artist Karl Friedrich Schinkel's famous gothic cathedral rises out of the clouds of an upside down mystical landscape based on the Carinthian Alps. Gothic Cathedral by a River (German - Gotischer Dom am Wasser) is an 1813 painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It shows an imaginary Gothic cathedral on an island in a river - Schinkel later became a noted proponent of neo-Gothic architecture. It is now in the Old National gallery in Berlin. When Alex painted this it was his intension via sampling of the existing image of the silhouetted cathedral to show the transcendent divine beauty of god rising out of the pinnacle of medieval human architectural achievement and merging with mist air and vapour in the upper reaches of the high alpine sky. Light Emanates out of darkness amidst storm cloud’s, which are on the cusp of clearing. Divinity is manifest in the landscape itself.