The Nature of Sound

This is the painting I just finished for a friend of mine. He suggested that I paint a work for him whilst listening to Sigur' Ros. This Band has a very expirimental sound, rittled with bits of contrasting tones. Calm and Chaotic. There is an overall theme pervaiding the tracks that ebb and flow like the ocean. Rough then calm. As my friend is a musician I felt that the painting should carry a message about music as an expressive medium. In essence this painting deals with the emotional and spiritual impact that music creation/ listening can contain. Green represents refreshing (new growth), and the blue represents, in this painting, the motion of water flow (also the sense of the flow of the Holy Spirit.) As the musician releases sound from his/her soul, a swirling whirling wave is set loose, crashing on it's listener. So a marriage forms between the nature of the music I was listening to and the content of this image; in a uniform direction towards the washing of sound like a move of the heart.