Orion Nebula 2

About This Painting

Acrylic on Canvas (510 x 760)

2018

Inspiration

When I came across the Hubble photos published of Orion, I was blown away. Inspired to try and reproduce the energy, colour and movement in my work, there were many views of Orion to choose from. This is the second Orion Nebula painting, which fascinated me because it was a more complete view of the shapes created by the swirling mass of dust and gas. I reveled in the chaos and vibrancy of the colours. 

About the orion nebula

The Orion Nebula sits in the Milky Way, in the constellation of Orion. One of the brightest nebulae, at night it can be visible to the naked eye. Orion is made up of clouds of gas, dust, stars, and reflection nebulae.  It is part of a much larger nebula that is known as the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, where stars are forming throughout, but most of the young stars are concentrated in dense clusters like the one illuminating the Orion Nebula.