Sacred Banyan Tree, Lod Tunduh, Bali

Acrylic painting. 2017, 60 x 50, Exceptiional frame of black fabric matte, gold wood.

Painted in situ in Silungan beside a temple poised on the edge of a deep gorge. Banyan trees'height are the markers from afar of a temple. The strangely vertical roots continue below this painting for perhaps another 20 metres to a stream. all part of the minutely detailed and managed irrigation system in Bali. These adventitious roots support the huge, weighty structures that these sacred trees become. Pondok Saraswati is in the middle right hand edge.