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IF THINGS WERE REVERSEDOriginal Oil on Panel by Mark Gordon BrownMedium: Oil on PanelSize: 12 × 24 inchesPrice: $300If T...
07/23/2026

IF THINGS WERE REVERSED

Original Oil on Panel by Mark Gordon Brown

Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 12 × 24 inches
Price: $300

If Things Were Reversed is a haunting and contemplative original painting by Mark Gordon Brown that invites viewers to question perspective, perception, and the assumptions through which we experience reality.

A vast landscape of water and sky stretches beneath dramatic shafts of light, while a solitary utility pole stands against the horizon as a quiet symbol of communication, connection, and human presence. Floating above the shoreline is an enigmatic pair of luminous eyes, watching silently across the scene. Their presence transforms an otherwise peaceful landscape into something deeply psychological and dreamlike.

The title unlocks the painting's deeper meaning.

What if everything we believed to be ordinary were actually extraordinary? What if we were the ones being observed? What if the familiar and the mysterious exchanged places?

Rather than providing answers, the painting encourages contemplation. The calm blues of the landscape contrast beautifully with the intensity of the watchful gaze, creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously peaceful and unsettling. The result is a work that lingers in the imagination long after it has been viewed.

If Things Were Reversed demonstrates the strength of simplicity. With a restrained palette and carefully balanced composition, Brown creates an image that operates on both emotional and philosophical levels.

The juxtaposition of the immense eyes with the quiet landscape immediately disrupts ordinary perception. The painting recalls aspects of Symbolism, Surrealism, and visionary contemporary art while remaining highly individual in its ex*****on. The expansive sky, reflective water, and rays of light evoke hope and transcendence, yet the mysterious gaze introduces questions about consciousness, observation, memory, and reality itself.

The composition possesses an elegant sense of space. Every element has room to breathe, allowing the viewer's attention to move naturally between the landscape, the utility pole, the distant horizon, and the enigmatic eyes. This balance gives the painting a meditative quality that rewards repeated viewing.

Rather than demanding a single interpretation, If Things Were Reversed invites each viewer to discover their own meaning. It is both visually striking and intellectually engaging, making it an exceptional conversation piece for collectors who appreciate symbolic, surreal, and contemplative contemporary art.

FOR SALE

Title: If Things Were Reversed
Artist: Mark Gordon Brown
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 12 × 24 inches
Price: $300

Available for local pickup in Westerose, Alberta, near Pigeon Lake.

Professional packing and shipping can also be arranged through Pak Mail or another professional art shipping or art-moving company at the buyer's expense. All packing, crating, insurance, shipping, courier, and transportation costs are the responsibility of the buyer.

Serious inquiries welcome.

An original painting that combines quiet beauty with profound symbolism, If Things Were Reversed offers collectors an opportunity to own a thoughtful and distinctive work that invites reflection every time it is viewed.

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RIDE THE TIGEROriginal Painting by Mark Gordon BrownSize: 24 × 30 inchesPrice: $693Ride The Tiger is a powerful visionar...
07/21/2026

RIDE THE TIGER

Original Painting by Mark Gordon Brown

Size: 24 × 30 inches
Price: $693

Ride The Tiger is a powerful visionary painting by Mark Gordon Brown, bursting with animal energy, exotic botanical forms, theatrical pattern, vivid color, and dreamlike symbolism.

Dominating the composition is the monumental presence of the tiger. Its striped body emerges from a mysterious dark environment, while its dramatically stylized, almost mask-like face transforms it from an ordinary animal into something archetypal: a creature of raw power, danger, instinct, courage, and transformation.

Surrounding the tiger is an extraordinary visual world of brilliant red flowers, sweeping turquoise and pale green botanical forms, yellow blossoms, decorative patterns, mysterious objects, and richly layered passages of orange, black, blue, green, and crimson. The result feels less like a conventional wildlife scene and more like entering a private mythology or vivid waking dream.

The title gives the painting its philosophical heart. To “ride the tiger” suggests confronting a force too powerful to simply stop and learning instead to move with its tremendous energy. The tiger can represent life itself: chaos, change, instinct, creativity, desire, adversity, fate, or personal transformation.

Ride The Tiger succeeds precisely because it is far more than a painting of a tiger. It creates an entire psychological environment around the animal.

The contrast between the fierce geometry of the tiger’s stripes and the enormous curving botanical forms is particularly compelling. Ferocity meets beauty. Darkness meets brilliant color. Animal instinct encounters flowers, ornament, mystery, and almost ceremonial imagery.

The tiger’s exaggerated face has the presence of an ancient mask or supernatural guardian. It appears simultaneously animal and symbolic, as though some immense internal force has suddenly materialized on the canvas.

The painting draws upon qualities associated with Expressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism, visionary art, psychedelic painting, and outsider art, while maintaining a highly individual visual language. Its shifting scales, unexpected juxtapositions, rich textures, and unconventional spatial relationships encourage repeated viewing.

From across a room, the tiger and sweeping fields of color command attention. Up close, smaller details begin to emerge, creating new relationships and possible interpretations.

This is statement art in the fullest sense. It does not disappear quietly into a room. It gives the room an identity.

At 24 × 30 inches, the painting has substantial wall presence while remaining versatile enough for a home, office, studio, creative space, restaurant, eclectic interior, or private collection.

Its underlying message makes it particularly powerful:

Meet uncertainty with courage. Transform danger into momentum. Ride the force that others fear.

FOR SALE

Title: Ride The Tiger
Artist: Mark Gordon Brown
Size: 24 × 30 inches
Original Painting
Price: $693

Available for local pickup in Westerose, Alberta, near Pigeon Lake.

Professional packing and transportation may also be arranged through Pak Mail or another professional art shipping or art-moving company at the buyer’s expense. All packing, crating, insurance, courier, shipping, and transportation expenses are the responsibility of the buyer.

Serious inquiries welcome.

An opportunity to acquire a genuinely distinctive original work for collectors drawn to visionary imagery, powerful animal symbolism, unconventional contemporary painting, and art that becomes an immediate conversation piece.

ΔΙΌΝΥΣΟΣ by Mark Gordon BrownOriginal Painting | 24 × 24 inches | $500A riot of myth, color, intoxication, nature, and a...
07/21/2026

ΔΙΌΝΥΣΟΣ by Mark Gordon Brown
Original Painting | 24 × 24 inches | $500
A riot of myth, color, intoxication, nature, and ancient mystery, Διόνυσος is a striking original painting that rewards the eye with something new every time you look at it.
At the center emerges the commanding face of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god associated with wine, ecstasy, theatre, fertility, transformation, and the liberation of the human spirit. Rather than presenting him as a distant museum figure, the painting brings Dionysus into a vivid, dreamlike world where antiquity, symbolism, vegetation, fungi, wine, ritual, and imagination collide.
The composition has the density and mystery of a private mythology. The viewer’s eye travels constantly through the canvas: from the monumental, almost mask-like face of the god to the wine glass, grapes, strange botanical forms, mushrooms, architectural fragments, and flashes of saturated crimson, green, gold, blue, and violet. The Greek lettering ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΣ anchors the imagery while reinforcing the feeling that we have entered an ancient mystery reconstructed through a contemporary imagination.
What makes this painting particularly compelling is its refusal to become merely decorative. It has presence. There is something ceremonial and psychologically charged about it. The asymmetrical composition and overlapping imagery create the sensation of a vision unfolding rather than a conventional scene being observed. Dionysus seems simultaneously to emerge from the surrounding forms and preside over them.
The expressive handling of paint gives the work tremendous personality. Colors shift unexpectedly, forms dissolve into one another, and areas of intense detail coexist with looser, more intuitive passages. The result feels appropriately Dionysian: exuberant rather than restrained, sensual rather than sterile, mysterious rather than completely explained.
This would make an exceptional statement piece for a collector drawn to Greek mythology, Dionysian imagery, pagan and classical themes, visionary art, surrealism, symbolism, psychedelic aesthetics, wine culture, theatre, or unconventional contemporary painting.
At 24 × 24 inches, the square format gives the work substantial visual impact while remaining versatile enough for a home, studio, office, wine room, library, eclectic interior, restaurant, gallery wall, or private collection.

Διόνυσος is an exuberant contemporary invocation of one of antiquity’s most psychologically fascinating gods. The painting succeeds precisely because it does not attempt archaeological reconstruction. Instead, it treats mythology as something alive, unstable, fertile, and capable of being reinvented.
The central visage possesses an almost icon-like gravity, while the surrounding profusion of grapes, wine, fungi, vegetation, architectural motifs, and enigmatic organic forms creates a visual vocabulary of intoxication and metamorphosis. The painting seems to operate according to dream logic: objects announce themselves, transform, overlap, and disappear back into the composition.
Especially effective is the tension between the solemnity of the central figure and the wild abundance surrounding him. This duality captures something essential about Dionysus himself: civilization and ecstasy, theatre and madness, cultivation and wilderness, ritual and abandon.
The painting does not simply illustrate Dionysus. It creates a Dionysian atmosphere.
Its vigorous brushwork and unconventional spatial relationships give it the immediacy of outsider and visionary art while its mythological subject connects it to a tradition stretching back thousands of years. The result feels deeply personal rather than academic. It is precisely the kind of painting that can become more intriguing with prolonged ownership because its imagery never resolves itself into a single, easy interpretation.
A bold, unusual, conversation-starting work with genuine visual presence.
Title: Διόνυσος
Size: 24 × 24 inches
Price: $500
Available for local pickup.
Shipping or professional transportation can also be arranged through Pak Mail or another qualified art moving/shipping company, at the buyer’s expense. Packing, insurance, shipping, and any associated transportation costs are the responsibility of the buyer.
Serious inquiries welcome. A distinctive opportunity to acquire an original mythological work that combines ancient symbolism with an intensely personal contemporary vision.

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