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Guitars

By  Jenny Mellings 2017

Dimensions
30 x 40

This represents the memory of a day when musical instruments were delivered to the camp by a group of volunteers from Dorset. As I left the area that evening, I glanced back and saw the flap of a small tent open in the dusk, glimpsing inside a group of young men joyfully tuning their new guitars. This is part of a series of small paintings that will be shown at Plymouth Art Weekender 2017 - see events page #Ontheground
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Blue tent

Sacredspace#Calais

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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