Heading Home (Ode to Homer)
Peter Livingston
Heading Home (Ode to Homer) [detail] 2026
Self-portrait
Oil on canvas
120 x 150 cm
About the Artwork
This is a symbolic self-portrait pertinent to an older creative man still wrestling with the inevatible adversities that life brings.
I have taken Winslow Homer’s The Fog Warning (1885) and placed myself in the boat amid a turbulent sea with my beloved dog (referencing loyalty and devotion), the catch of two crayfish (referencing Jung’s Coniunctio and pursuit of individuation), the symbol of the Moon in the buoy and the Sun in the sunrise, with Cape Raoul (Port Arthur) in the distance as a reference to my convict links.
About the Artist
Peter Livingston worked for Sunshine Coast TAFE as a facilitator of Cert IV and Diploma courses in Visual Arts for 20 years while continuing his own painting practice. An avid lover of art, he has travelled to many major galleries in Europe and the USA, and his works are imbued with Fauvist and Surrealist references. He has been a Blake Prize finalist and a Sulman Prize finalist (2014).