The celebrated legend of alpinism where the party summit the peak and plant a spruce tree on its summit.
Three wolpertinger rodent types feast on a dish of pork and dumplings know locally as Bauernschmaus or farmers feast. Austrian; pork loin chops, bacon, and sausages cooked in beer with sauerkraut, grated raw potato, and seasoning.
The rattle Bock or Raspelbock is a mythical creature whose image is often in Klausen hunter encounters and similar facilities. It is a stuffed rodent head where the antlers of a buck are placed. In addition to the rattle Bock, there's the female equivalent: the Rasselgeiß. In Rasselgeiß the antlers are formed slightly smaller. Remarkable are the maxillary canine teeth in some specimens, a hare has not improved either.
The original small oil painting made as a commission, which was then used as the image for the subsequent screen print run.
A simple pine tree stands alone as a monument to salvation. This tree holds the snow pack in place for me whilst I ski on upwards. It averts death through avalanche. For this reason this tree is a holy relic like a shrine, and a symbol of salvation.
Internal Gilded frame in silver is a norse poem from the creation story of how Wotan created the Furthark alphabet by being speared to a tree for 7 nights and consequently in his gushing blood the runes took shape.
A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum-driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.
Mount Aspiring/Tititea is New Zealand's highest mountain outside the Aoraki/Mount Cook region.
An old man stands in the same pose as Caspar David Friedreich's painting Wanderer above the sea of clouds. The mountain Piz Palu looms above.
Pamir Vistas in the Tian Shan (Celestial Mountains) of kyrgz Republic.
The Matterhorn imagined as seen from the south eastern italian side.
Looking out towards Monte Disgrazia in Italy at twilight from the Albigne Hut. The moon is reflected in the lake connecting the sky with earth.
The Schreckhorn (4,078 m) is a mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is the highest peak located entirely in the canton of Berne. The Schreckhorn is the northernmost Alpine four-thousander.
The Biancograt Arete of Piz Bernina.
Abyssal drops off's down endless snow gullies ending in certain doom.
The Wandering man looks back from old age at his life and ponders, perhaps past climbs. We the onlooker lament the man as he could become us after the climb if the Piz Palu..
A ghostly face of Leni Riefenstahl emerges out of the landscape of the Konigsee in the Berchtesgaden Alps.
Flake is a fractal representation of a snow flake. The painting is about looking out from the summits of mountains and the contemplation of what is beyond, meaning or the the lack of meaning and order. At this point Alex was on the Untersberg mountain. The mountain is renowned world wide for its system of ice caverns. And local folklore holds it as the resting place of King Barbarossa and his army who one day will return to save the Holy Roman Empire. In being on a place so steeped in legend their is an expectation for something to happen or a revelation in the rockface. Nothing happend, and thats the sad joy of the painting their is only the natural elements at work: snow, light, water vapour, clouds and peaks. However even in this stripped down simplicity their is a truthful beauty and harmony. A simple snowflake falls out of the sky, an ordinary every day occurrence that is at once extraordinary.
The Grave in the painting is in Abney park Cemetery. So far, the only part of London Alex has ever painted in his work. The Cemetery is a famous Victorian resting ground for the founders of the Salvation army. The Resting place in the title refers to the possibility of being at peace in the mountains in a far off land and the frequent rests that are necessary whilst climbing at such altitudes, and the potentiality for permanent rest in the mortal sense. This overt christian symbolism at first may seem morbid, but refers to Alex's ongoing struggle to define the divine and everlasting in life through his art. However, the ivy and plants growing all over the grave are an allegory for eternal renewal and reabsorption of life.
Richard Wagner's avatar sits atop of his head, he being a desert fox/doe/wolpertinger. Ragnork, the ending of the world as he knows it rests heavy on his mind ushering in the new age of the Rasselbocks and wolpertingers who like the Nibelungen are destined to cause mischief and tamper with rock climbers ironmongery.
Some of these creatures are evil and have the mark of Lucifer in their hoofs and goat horns. We should be wary of those as they will steal climber’s bootlaces and whittle down their alpenstocks to matchsticks.
The Wetterhorn (3,692 m) is a mountain in the Swiss Alps close to the village of Grindelwald. Although it was first climbed in 1844, the ascent by Alfred Wills, a young pine tree and party in 1854 is the more celebrated, and is generally regarded to have marked the beginning of the golden age of alpinism.
The Rheinwaldhorn is the highest point in the Swiss canton of Ticino at 3402m. It lies on the border between the cantons of Graubünden and Ticino, in the Adula massif, part of the St. Gotthard massif of the Lepontine Alps in southern Switzerland.
This painting was a commission completed in response to a mountaineering touring residency during the summer of 2009 in the Ober Engadine. The work is now part of Robin Beadle (mountain guides) Collection.
The Valais (French pronunciation: [valɛ]; German: Wallis, German pronunciation: [ˈvalɪs] ( listen)) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps. The canton is one of the drier parts of Switzerland in its central Rhône valley. Paradoxically it is also one of most well-watered parts, having large amounts of snow and rain up on the highest peaks found in Switzerland. The canton of Valais is probably best known for the Matterhorn and ski resorts such as Zermatt or Verbier.
A commissioned painting for the acclaimed mountain guide and art collector Robin Beadle. This work was carried out after a residency ski touring the high alps of the Vallais from Chamonix to the Simplon Pass.
A peak stands alone as an ivory tower to the world blocking everyone but the most brave or insane to its bastions of ice and blinding slopes. Skiers skirt round it as if like lost ships in a frozen ocean avoiding a menacing iceberg.
Elevation, 2351 m (7713 ft). Location. Location, Switzerland The Pic Chaussy is a mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
Technically, the English name is a misunderstanding, being named after Lochan na Gaire, the 'little loch of the noisy sound', a loch to be found in the mountain's northeast corrie.
Hardangerjøkulen is the sixth largest glacier in mainland Norway, and is located in Eidfjord and Ulvik municipalities.
Kehlstein is a mountain in the German Alps near Berchtesgaden. It is the famous location of Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest).
A comissioned painting for Artist Advisory / Gullichion Gallery
The Watzmann (Austro-Bavarian: Watzmo) is the third highest mountain in Germany (Zugspitze is the highest at 2,962m, Hochwanner the second at 2,746m). The three main peaks (right side in image) are Hocheck (2651 m), Mittelspitze (Middle Peak, 2,713m) and Südspitze (South Peak, 2,712m). The Watzmann massive also includes the Watzmannfrau (Watzmann Wife, also known as Kleiner Watzmann or Small Watzmann), at 2307 m (leftmost peak in image) and the Watzmannkinder (Watzmann Children), five lower peaks in the recess between the main peaks and the Watzmannfrau.
The first of the night time paintings.
Perfect reflections, unaltered 18 century mills making cuckoo clocks at high altitude on an unproductive alp. The making of the imposible real is the focus within this work.
The Witch's Hole mill is located in the ravine witches hole (sometimes called Hexenlochtal, with the local population but uncommon) in the Black Forest between St. Märgen and Furtwangen in the municipal area of Furtwangen-Neukirch.