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Forgotten Dreams Installation Iteration 1

By Sarah Needham 2024 - 2025

Photography Elena Shkvarinka

Installation piece consisting of panels painted on paper with hand made oil paints with linseed oil, egg yolk, French chalk and water (Rembrandt's media) , bees wax, using pigments collected from the Lot cave painting region in France, villages in England where women were accused of witch craft in the 15-1600s, brick dust from the road my father has been fixing nearly all my life, bone black, red ochre,translucent iron oxide, 'London garden rust, manganese black

sculpture: Thames chalk river stones and thames rusted broken cable coil collected between Battersea power station and Battersea Bridge

Degree show installation for MA Painting at the Royal college of Art

Photography Elena Shkarvinka

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