Since he’s a child, Robert S. Connett, a self-taught artist based in Los Angeles, is fascinated by the tiny worlds which live with us, under rocks, roots of trees, which sneak in the shade between our feet. When he was a child, the painter go out searching them, and brought back at home any kind of specimens of spiders and snakes ; he’s also inspired by scientific illustrations books, which gives to his work this precision and this accuracy in details. These “underworlds”, as he describes them, are very populated, dense of microscopic animals (aquatic organisms, shrimps and crabs, myriad of butterflies and colored grasshoppers) and of luxuriant vegetation. Dive into the delightful reign of creatures which seem just taken from the Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch.
