Ghost Flowers

By Jenny Mellings 2024

Dimensions
74 X 94 X 2 cm

On the archaeological site that I've been visiting regularly as an observer, many wildflowers have emerged in spring that are not often seen in fields and hedgerows . In this painting I've made prints with some of these using chalk on a landscape background of earth ochres.

Jenny Mellings

Exeter through binoculars

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)

Cerberus

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