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oil on canvas
8"x 8"
Just a quick stop in a doorway to make a call on the cell phone.
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I found this snail lying in the middle of the street, about to be stepped on. I picked it up and later used it in this photo, placing it on a life-sized doll in a side-view composition as it moved across her lips. It was shy for the first hour or so, barely reacting—but eventually, it behaved like a real model. After the shoot, I released it into a nearby park. Often a symbol of solitude, patience, and inner reflection, the snail reinforces the recurring theme of isolation and indulgence throughout my work.
University College, Oxford
The Shelley Memorial
"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity."
Shelley, "Adonais".
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Sussex and came from a prominent family being the son of the MP for Horsham.
The Shelley memorial was erected at University College in 1892-3 it lies in the west front quad of the college under a dome painted with stars and is close to The High Street, yet it seems another world. The domed memorial was intended for the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Curiously Shelley’s memorial is placed in the college from which he was sent down from in 1811 for publishing a “scandalous” document “The Necessity of Atheism”, this had be co-written with his friend Jefferson Hogg. Lady Shelley presented the memorial to University College, who by 1894 had undoubtedly forgiven Shelley’s earlier misdemeanour. Following the disgrace of the pamphlet Shelley eloped with sixteen year old Harriet Westbrook to Scotland, this marriage like Shelley’s tempestuous life was doomed, and Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine (Hyde Park.) Drowning was to be the romantic poet’s own fate eleven years later when he too was lost, his yacht was sunk in a storm in the Bay of Lerici following a visit to Lord Byron . Onslow Ford’s monument is very “fin de siècle” it was designed to appear as if the muse of poetry and two lions support the drowned poet on a slab of Conemara marble as if floating on an invisible sea. The cold marble of his naked body contrasts with the heavy bronze of its support. The whole edifice is behind a grille and is locked so one usually observes it from eye level. The monument and its architectural surround was described by Pevsner as “extremely lush.” (P.211 Oxfordshire The Buildings of England , Yale Press) The memorial is an intriguing piece of work and is not generally open to public view. Basil Champneys (1842-1920) who was the architect was also responsible for Newham College Cambridge and Mansfield College Oxford. His work is often cited as late gothic, however in this case his influences appear more classical in keeping with the mausoleum.
It is worth comparing the University College monument with Weekes’ 1854 one of Shelley (In Christchurch Abbey). This monument was intended for St Peter’s Bournemouth where the poet’s heart is buried. (NT)
Horse Study
Quick horse study sketch with some roughly added digital colouring
Pencil, charcoal
Paper
21 x 21 cm
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION | WATERSTONE GALLERY - PORTLAND OREGON | MARCH 2024
music credit: Sarah MacLachlan - Prayer Of St Frances
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Family Outing
Enhanced version of a previous post with some digital colour added as a tryout for adding colour to the back and white version.
Acrylic
Canvas
18 x 24 cm
Sorbi was an Italian painter who lived in Florence. He lived from 1844 until 1931. This painting is an oil on canvas. It is 25 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches in dimesion. I fell in love with this narrative painting the first moment I saw it. It has amazing movement and is entirely delightful to see. Using Snapseed, I added an increment of saturation and contrast to the reproduction that I had found. Enjoy!
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