PANORAMIC VIEWS
The Exit to San Breta was painted for a Canadian collector who has commissioned more than 75 artists over the years to illustrate the stories of George RR Martin. This one was for a short story of the same name, set in the future when hardly anyone drove cars in America any more. The neglected roads have become covered in potholes with barely any signage or street lighting left. Then one night, a man is driving along a road in Arizona and finds himself in the middle of a kind of ghost story involving an old Ford Edsel and a road in miraculously good condition.
I decided to use a panoramic canvas that would be able to express the vastness of the Arizona landscape. The extra width would help me get across my idea of changing the road surface from rough to pristine. I
