Blue Boat Passing

By Jenny Mellings 2020

Dimensions
29 x 22

Many of us have lost friends and family in 2020/21 not only through Covid, but other illnesses as well. This was made in memory of a family friend who died last autumn, and who had lived in a blue boat. It is part of the blue series that has been ongoing during the pandemic, characterised by painting with lapis lazuli, chalk, Egyptian blue, watercolour and oak gall ink and earth colours on Khadi paper.

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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…

Correspondence 10 (Apu)

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