David wightman possesses an exceptional ability to transform nature into art forget realism and holding a mirror to reality wightmans work is all about reveling in the limitless possibilities of artifice the beauty of mixing colour and playing with composition to transplant the natural world onto the canvas in the name of art for its own sake persephone ii depicts a layered landscape of mountains land sky and river stretching back like a 2 dimensional diorama although the focal moun