Title: Green Man: portrait of Ralph Vaughn Williams
Material: Oil on canvas
Size: 28×28
Year: 2016
“I don’t know whether I like, but it is what I meant.” — Ralph Vaughn Williams
RVW was an English patriot whose music spoke for a nation when he wrote of the sea and their green, arcadian ancestry. His Greensleeves fantasy sounds like it’s leaking into the air from England’s very soil.