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Correspondence 5, All Yellow

By  Jenny Mellings 2012 - 2014

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The background of this painting (in the 'Correspondence' series) is based on a map of Paris, and this is drenched in the orange colour of sodium vapour street lights. It's framework also seems to make reference to the Tour D'Eiffel, with it's golden amber glow. Flower-shaped icons contain fogged snatches of trees, foliage and the botanical design of gates and bridges from specific locations in the city photographed on night walks.

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Breakfast at Ashram Kitchen

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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