The Explorer painting is one of the twelve Jungian personality archetypes as depicted by Ashton Kaleigh for the Reflections Art Exhibit.

The Explorer Original Painting

Mixed Media

36 x 48 Inches

Stretched Gallery Wrapped Canvas

THIS ITEM IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY AT CRAFT AND SOCIAL, 305 E FRANKLIN AVE, EL PASO, TX 79901

©Ashton Kaleigh 2023

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Artist notes:

The explorer is a person driven by curiosity, adventure, and discovery. This is depicted by a deep sea diver. The explorer values freedom, growth, and experience. Dolphins are intelligent and playful creatures that I feel embody this archetype as well. The Earth’s oceans are still full of mysteries and opportunity for exploration so it felt like a natural setting to use in this painting further strenthening using a diver as the focal point.

The clam shell has a pearlescent skull instead of a normal pearl because life is a treasure and is just a little “momento mori” easter egg.

I chose to use skulls in this series because the archetypes represent us all- regardless of skin color, beliefs, or any other superficial differences a human might have from another.. Sometimes an individual resonates with a particular archetype  or many at once. It may also change as we journey through life.