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Cymba Transtemporalis - Lyme Bay

By Jenny Mellings 2023 - 2025

Dimensions
90 x 130 cm

In this painting the crew of a local Cornish gig-rowing club have been dressed in timeless, possibly Roman style clothing. They row on a sea with pliosaur nearby. Seascape is based on the familiar skyline of Lyme Bay, Dorset, with equisetum printed in the foreground, and ancient plant hat has probably been there before humans inhabited this place.

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First Quarter Half Blue

Yarrow Glove

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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