Frank Forrestall Fine Art

Frank Forrestall Fine Art Surrealist Artist Frank Forrestall creating windows into the Transcendent

In "Unknown Echoes" a vertical stack of three weathered, stone-like heads is bound together by taut, vine-like cords tha...
06/24/2026

In "Unknown Echoes" a vertical stack of three weathered, stone-like heads is bound together by taut, vine-like cords that crisscross the composition. Each form contains embedded eyes and partially obscured mouths, suggesting constrained perception and shared consciousness. Mossy textures and erosion imply ancient endurance, as though identity has been compressed into layered, interdependent strata.

In "One Contains Multitudes", a single face opens to reveal a crowded interior populated by countless smaller selves. Th...
06/23/2026

In "One Contains Multitudes", a single face opens to reveal a crowded interior populated by countless smaller selves. The work explores the idea that identity is not singular but composite, shaped by memory, experience, contradiction, and inherited stories. The outer visage appears calm and unified, yet within it exists an unruly multitude of voices and personalities. The painting suggests that every individual contains a hidden society, far more complex than the face presented to the world.

06/23/2026

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Gravity depicts a figure caught between falling and flight. A human body emerges from a weathered mask-like face, stretc...
06/23/2026

Gravity depicts a figure caught between falling and flight. A human body emerges from a weathered mask-like face, stretched diagonally across an empty sky. The work reflects the tension between aspiration and inevitability—the desire to transcend earthly limits while remaining subject to them. Like many figures in myth and folklore, the protagonist exists in a liminal moment, suspended between ascent and descent, certainty and surrender.

A face suspended between object and organism, "Dangling" presents identity as something assembled, weathered, and provis...
06/21/2026

A face suspended between object and organism, "Dangling" presents identity as something assembled, weathered, and provisional. The figure hangs from cords like a strange talisman or relic, its features formed from countless small fragments fused into a larger whole. Part puppet, part idol, part severed head, the image explores the uneasy boundary between autonomy and dependence. The suspended figure appears both vulnerable and enduring, caught in a state of perpetual waiting.

Bogtrotter reclaims an old Irish slur and transforms it into a mythic figure of endurance and transformation. Inspired b...
06/21/2026

Bogtrotter reclaims an old Irish slur and transforms it into a mythic figure of endurance and transformation. Inspired by William Blake's proverb, "A fool who persists in his folly will become wise," the painting imagines a being composed of accumulated identities, mistakes, ambitions, and revelations. Crowns, masks, severed thoughts, and wandering spirits emerge from its body as it traverses a desolate landscape. Neither hero nor monster, the Bogtrotter embodies the idea that wisdom is often won through missteps, persistence, and the long, crooked journey of becoming.

Reverse: A King's skull lost in the briars.

Currently at Secord Gallery, Halifax

A Mighty Contraption evokes the dream-logic of ancient siege engines and forgotten idols, transforming a simple wheeled ...
06/19/2026

A Mighty Contraption evokes the dream-logic of ancient siege engines and forgotten idols, transforming a simple wheeled machine into something both playful and ominous. The wooden face mounted upon the structure resembles a ceremonial mask or primitive god, its wide eyes carrying the uneasy innocence of a child’s toy while the sharpened beams and crude mechanisms hint at violence hidden beneath invention. There is a strange tenderness in its construction, as though it were built not for conquest but out of humanity’s eternal compulsion to animate the inanimate — to give personality to tools, weapons, and machines. Set against the barren landscape, the contraption becomes a relic of imagination itself: absurd, ingenious, and faintly tragic, like the fossil of a civilization that once mistook ingenuity for wisdom.

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06/16/2026

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Roast Beast presents a grotesque, ceremonial creature arranged like a sacrificial dish, its body twisted into an im...
06/14/2026

Roast Beast presents a grotesque, ceremonial creature arranged like a sacrificial dish, its body twisted into an impossible posture that blurs the line between animal, idol, and offering. Set against a stark, theatrical darkness, the figure appears both cooked and alive, its green, watchful eyes suggesting awareness even in submission. The painting evokes ancient feasts, pagan rites, and the uneasy relationship between consumption and reverence—where nourishment, cruelty, and worship collapse into a single act. It is a meditation on how cultures ritualize violence, disguising appetite as tradition and sanctity.

Return to the Inner Cave depicts a living, arboreal face whose mouth opens into darkness, as though the landscape i...
06/12/2026

Return to the Inner Cave depicts a living, arboreal face whose mouth opens into darkness, as though the landscape itself were exhaling memory, myth, or origin. The figure evokes an ancestral threshold—a place where consciousness retreats inward rather than advancing outward—suggesting that true revelation requires descent rather than conquest. The roots and branches radiating from the head imply thought, lineage, and time entwined, while the pale stream emerging from the mouth reads as both breath and offering. This is a painting about returning to the source of self, where nature, mind, and myth collapse into a single interior space.

Painted during live stream; November 28, 2023.

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