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Interpreting the island of La Réunion, light, music and literature
Here you will find edited highlights of some of my other series of works.
Impressions de la Réunion
Thanks to my friends, Colette and Jean-Michel, I had the opportunity to spend three weeks on the island of Réunion in March 2022.
The first video shows Réunion through the photographs I took, plus the artworks made there.
The second video takes you around the subsequent Impressions de la Réunion exhibition.
Britten War Requiem Prints
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints.
Benjamin Britten took the Requiem Mass and added some of Wilfred Owen’s poems from the Great War, to create this monumental piece.
I created a print for each movement, splitting Dies irae into three prints, as it is the largest part of the music.
I endeavoured to capture the spirit of the music and words, as this monumental piece moves along its journey, always bearing in mind the cost to humanity.
Each print is 33cm x 50cm, in an edition of 10 using handmade paper from Moulin de Larroque, Couzes, France.
Each is individual due to the nature of the paper and the printing process.
This is important as the handmade paper represents human skill and individuality – as every soldier was an individual, loved by their friends and family for being themselves.
Celebrating Evensong
Choral Evensong was created in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, when he combined Vespers and Compline.
I considered the purpose and meaning of Evensong: the words and music, history, location and architecture. There is symbolism within the images, plus motifs found in the cathedral.
It was always my intention to combine modernity with timelessness and to convey the sense of moving through the service.
Here is the Celebrating Evensong book of prints.
Art for Evensong
The challenge: take the Celebrating Evensong prints and create large canvasses to hang in Rochester Cathedral.
These contemporary images of a sixteenth century service invite people to see the familiar with a new light, hung in sacred spaces where generations have trod the same stones. They pay tribute to the choir and choristers who bring this service and its music to life.
Painted for and displayed at Rochester Cathedral in 2012/13, each banner is 1.35m x 2.5m, acrylic on canvas.
‘Art for Evensong’ then went ‘on tour’ and visited Peel Cathedral on the Isle of Man in 2013, then Worcester and Bradford Cathedrals in 2014.
Q-Series
Expressions of my feelings during 'lockdown'.
Away from the studio - working on the dining room table, I deliberately limited myself to one, two or three colours. They can be emotionally raw, or combine the raw with gratitude for nature seen during my daily walks.
Quite often, I would setup colour clashes, and see what happened as the paint dried. Always interesting to see the flow and shapes that appear.
The Voyage Out
A series of paintings inspired by Virginia Woolf’s first novel.
Virginia Woolf on ‘The Voyage Out’
“What I wanted to do was to give the feeling of a vast tumult of life, as various & disorderly as possible, which should be cut short for a moment by the death, & go on again …”
A voyage is a transient event which leaves an impression upon those who have experienced the elements and the passage from one port to the next.
Shifting Sand
A series of prints exploring movement and light in opals.
Opals are a simple combination of silica and water, the colour seen in opals being created by the interference of the passage of light through the stone by the presence of small spheres of silica gel.
Screen printing using highly textured handmade paper I worked with an open screen and small squeegees - exploring different methods of mark making to create a sense of movement.
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