"Annunciation: A Fleck of Now's Tomorrow"
Inspired by a poem called "Annunciation", written by Kirsty Gunn in her book, "44 Things: My Year at Home", during a time at which I, too was on a sabbatical, from my teaching job at the University of Dundee, this is one of a diptych of paintings. Made by drawing, embossing, imprinting and using collage, onto and into a delicately-layered surface of gesso and shellac, with flecks of watercolour and gold leaf, under intermittent thin layers of beeswax, in response to the poem and to the moment that inspired it.
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Date:
01/09/08
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Photographer:
Brigid Collins
"Annunciation: A Fleck of Now's Tomorrow"
Inspired by a poem called "Annunciation", written by Kirsty Gunn in her book, "44 Things: My Year at Home", during a time at which I, too was on a sabbatical, from my teaching job at the University of Dundee, this is one of a diptych of paintings. Made by drawing, embossing, imprinting and using collage, onto and into a delicately-layered surface of gesso and shellac, with flecks of watercolour and gold leaf, under intermittent thin layers of beeswax, in response to the poem and to the moment that inspired it.
Ref:
paintings_6
Date:
01/09/08
Location:
Photographer:
Brigid Collins
Paintings
"Enduring, Common I" is the first of a series of four paintings, each incorporating a fragment of a poem, Nasturtiums, by Diana Hendry. This poem was their 'Poem of the Year' at Dr. Neil's Garden in Duddingston, Edinburgh and I responded to it in the form of this series of watercolours for my exhibition, "Such frail enclaves: things remembered, made things, things unmade...", held Thompson's Tower in the garden, in September 2017. Size: 297 x 420 mm. Price on application.
"Annunciation: A Fleck of Now's Tomorrow"
Inspired by a poem called "Annunciation", written by Kirsty Gunn in her book, "44 Things: My Year at Home", during a time at which I, too was on a sabbatical, from my teaching job at the University of Dundee, this is one of a diptych of paintings. Made by drawing, embossing, imprinting and using collage, onto and into a delicately-layered surface of gesso and shellac, with flecks of watercolour and gold leaf, under intermittent thin layers of beeswax, in response to the poem and to the moment that inspired it.
Ref:
paintings_6
Date:
01/09/08
Location:
Photographer:
Brigid Collins
