Fire is an energy effect

This convection is what draws out the tongues of flame. The hotter flames and sparks rise up, creating a vacuum effect which draws cooler air into the base of the fire, continuing the combustion cycle. Fire dissipates when the combustibles are exhausted. Because of this glowing combustion, colors ranging from whitish yellow to dark orange are primarily what you’ll see in a natural fire. Fires do not become dark red or black as they cool. As the flames rise and lose their heat, they become a darker orange, but never as dark as a molten or superheated material does when it cools.

"Envisage"

Acrylic on canvas 40 x 50 cm

"Envisage" Form a mental image of something that is not present.

This painting is a part of the Phoenix series. Inspiration comes  through changing patterns in fire and allows the imagination flourish and the poem of Gayle Elen Harvey.

"Bird with a calm look, his wings in flames"

Mate-less contemplative, beyond the weight of his familial song,

This bird most wont envy turns redolent bonfire,

a bouquet of candelabra,till his cresset wings billow,

a chorus combusting as he frenzies heaven's theater.

A clamoring hubris un-nests him,
his body running giddy with crimson, this luminant traveler
trills hymns in a fevering seethe of deliverance from a rosy pyre.

Caught out, combusting, he's louder than poppies, a riptide of red notes,
his plumage turning blaze into flourish, a swirl of chime reminiscent of nativity,

smoke writhes to a whisper.

Without fanfare, arisen, he's raw as a newborn, fledgling-pink among the startled flock, just now
touching down.