Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting dark angels Or they might be just

Or they might be just sleeping with the light on to keep the dark away

The original oil painting is 16 x 20"/41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with a traditional 7/8"/2cm profile

The mystic is advised not to be fooled if it looks like the water is rushing past--it is really the mystic who is rising

and meeting up with distant friends

Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting dark angels Or they might be justI knew as soon as I looked at the central black shape in this painting that it would have to do with the Underworld. I saw the shapes of those involved in rituals to raise the dead assembling in a circle on the left and conjuring an angel a dark one to guide dead souls. I knew I wanted some souls, though, to be climbing out of the Underworld on their own; these are at the left end of the entrance to the Pit. The black figures on the right might be