‘Eurydice Lost’

Acrylic on Board, 2023

Bryan writes;

“Eurydice’s last glimpse of Orpheus and life, as she is dragged back into the underworld.”

Fellow exhibitor and Bryan's son reflects on his father's work;

“With my father’s painting ‘Eurydice Lost’ we find a painted figure simultaneously falling away from and toward a bright light. The figure, Orpheus, (known as a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet in Greek mythology) has a knowing look in his eyes.

This knowing stands between light and dark, blue and yellow, loss and love. With a tear, hell is here and frozen in a moment of outreaching. This moment of loss. There is a sense of a death to the music, the musician painted, his lyre at hand. If he could speak to us, perhaps Orpheus would say that art is all we have left when we are within the jaws of hell.

This myth is timeless, a warning perhaps, yet we are confronted with a painting here that sums up it’s themes well, as a moment ongoing in the experience of humanity. The painting quietly suggests, to me, that we are all lost in the eyes of love and death.”