Your painting is gorgeous, fascinating and puzzling with the untold story about so much of what is a human-made structure and what it served when bustling. Every aspect of the sky and sea, birds and promontory are superbly created.



As a botanist/horticulturist I must celebrate your work on the foliage in every facet of this painting. The grasses blanketing the promontory and vines clinging to the building are masterfully created. The bold foliage is entirely tropical with a palm or dracena relative tucked near the base of the castle keep and inland edge of the degraded wall. The foreground foliage is like banana and hinting in places of canna lilies. The only place where the foliage appears only slightly unnatural is the nine vertical leaves seemingly sprouting from the rock or fallen column directly above your signature in the lower-left of the painting. Your mosses give perfect definition to the shadowy side of rock slabs.



Thank you for sharing your works. The marvelous textures and reality are a wonder!