Verona Painting

The powerful prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is what started to impact this painting as it took shape in my studio. The medieval town of Verona, that acts as the violent backdrop of the play, lives in this painting. The colours and brushwork, subdued as much as they are substantially different from one another other, flowed amongst each other like the interconnected stories in a beating city. The painting nearly turned away from my abstract portrait form. But the 'ancient grudge' Shakespeare opens on felt to me like something that could equally define both waring families in a fictional story, as well as the war within our own selves and identity - the one that plays out over a lifetime as we navigate between pre-determined destiny and self-actualised determination. If nothing else, this painting offers a moment to remember this beautiful verse: “Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 36 H x 0 D in

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