Ancient Land with Ghost Rubble Road

By Jenny Mellings 2024

Dimensions
74 X 94 X 2 cm

The archaeological site that I've been documenting and responding to through my practice is a complex one with much evidence of a Roman farmstead and bronze and iron age life beneath that. Through painting I try to visualise aspects of life that may once have taken place there. Some of the colour used is earth found in the area.

Jenny Mellings

Crow Cage

Blue Window 2

This is another work from the ongoing 'Correspondences' series, exploring aspects of the digital world, particularly the internet. It's a larger painting than those I previously made using similar, almost 'Pointillist' or 'Divisionist' methods, and the subject matter is to do with a specific connection with a film. A frame from that film (The Apu Trilogy part 1 director: Satyajit Ray, cameraman: Subatra Mitra) forms the lower layer, and the speckled layer over the top partly obscures this, and…

Correspondence 10 (Apu)

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