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Dragonfly pond - A living flash of light Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Paper
Size: 11.6 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
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A spontaneous plein air painting made one day in early October 2021, it was finished indoors in the course of the winter. It is full of movement as it records a moment of communication between me, the artist sitting still by a pond, and an ever-moving dragonfly which, in my stillness, crept closer and closer through the air, seeming to want to get a better look at what I was doing, an alien invader on his patch. I couldn’t depict the insect’s electric blue and green patterning, or the delicacy of its wings, or the depth and intricacy of those big and mysterious compound eyes, so fast did his zig-zagging body pulse, but I wanted to try and record this moment in time. The dragonfly visited me several days in a row as I painted at the same spot and it is an encounter that kept me painting through the winter, a memory that will have long outlived this fragile and fascinating creature. The title is taken from the last line of Tennyson’s The Dragonfly – a living flash of light, he flew. The painting is unframed and is on linen-textured archival oil-painting paper.
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Painting:Oil on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.6 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I would like people to find and enjoy mystery in my work, and in the minutiae of life that inspires it. I hope that my paintings will give rise to questions and unlock new adventures in the viewer's own imagination each time they look. Texture, memory and all the senses play their part in the stories each viewer will bring to a painting. Much of my work comes from being outdoors, walking, travelling by bus or by ship or by train, and the restlessness of the sea. Movement and energy are an important part of my work and of my creative process. I respond in colours and strokes to the shapes I encounter in the urban and natural world. The urban jungle encroaches even on my Island home, though I do still sense the exotic and the adventurous. The urban adventurer is on high alert each time she leaves her front door. There are always hazards to navigate, roadworks, rail strikes or floods. We are nervy like cats, wide-eyed and wary, while assuming an air of nonchalant boredom with all that impacts our senses. The world is an exciting and richly exotic place of adventure, both because of what we have made in it and because of what was already there in it. Travel, colour, movement and mystery are always present in my work.
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