My artwork was inspired by the Boschbrand (Forest Fire) by Raden Saleh. I was inspired by this artwork because of the scale of the animals, the emotion that all the animals had in that painting truly inspired me.

I wanted to start the background with dark and serious colours like red and green to symbolise the forest slowly burning. I then painted the numbers in a bright pink and green to show bright plants slowly burning in the forest and bright blobs of paint around the painting to give it more depth.

The numbers show percentages about tigers and forests destroyed,for example the 94 in the percentage of tigers that have gone extinct worldwide.

33% is the percentage of forests destroyed worldwide. 20 is the amount of years a tiger lives up to in captivity. 4 is the amount of fires I have seen around the world face to face and the damage it can do that is why it is painted multiple times.
Afterwards I decided to add tiger stripes over the numbers showing more depth and showing fire eating them away.