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Mysteries Nineteen

By  Susan Banks 2016

Dimensions
76 x 76 x 4

Another attempt to escape from cinnabar red [much as I love it], this is the nineteenth in a series that responds to 2000-year-old wall painting. It alludes to borders and illusive planes, openings and perspectives, even mosaic and is a response to the complex visual stimulus of Roman painting in situ. There is a tension between what Roger Ling describes as Vorbang and Durchblick or rather “curtain“ and “view”. Oil paint on deep canvas

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