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

This is a painting of two layers relating to the experience and limitations of communication via Skype. The shadowy 'figure' is trapped behind a screen, obscured by the pointillist/divisionist dots of light. The colours suggest a nocturnal view, dominated by orange, which reflects of the ubiquitous colouring of the sodium vapour streetlamp.

Skype 2

Correspondence 6, Channel, and Correspondence 8, St Rita of the Final Hour

Dreaming of the Sea

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