Cassandra Three

Cassandra Three is named after the princess of Troy who, despite extraordinary ability is usually represented as a perpetual victim. Nevertheless, this is a playful painting featuring an eclectic mix of visual references borrowed and adapted from Bronze age and subsequent ancient imagery. The work is intentionally painterly and untidy suggesting old, unstable surfaces. The colours in this painting refer to Mycenaean ceramics.

Note. Cassandra, a daughter of King Priam, was the prophetess who foretold the fall of Troy. She was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but, as she rejected him, he cursed her so that nobody would believe her.

After the fall of Troy she was taken as a concubine by Agamemnon and, with him, she was killed by his wife, Clytemnestra.

Oil on Canvas