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Armorial Dwelling

By Jenny Mellings 2013

Jenny Mellings

This painting was made after the completion of a short animated film (entitled 'Crisium') in which I had drawn a building which morphed repeatedly into various architectural styles. It is a metaphorical representation with personal references which can be reinterpreted by the individual viewer. In fact I have recently recognised that part of this may refer to the city of Berlin where I lived for almost a year in my youth. It also represents an abandoned dwellings which is being reclaimed by the natural environment.
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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…

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