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Night Park (After Hieronymus)

By  Jenny Mellings 2008 - 2012

Jenny Mellings

Dimensions
125 x 165 x 4

This painting was started in February 2007, but finally evolved into it's current form. The group of birds was originally based on detail from a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. The scene is now also reminiscent of a night walk in a Parisian Park in midwinter. The trees are drawn in graphite onto an oil painted surface.

Jenny Mellings

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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)

First Quarter Half Blue

Beast Unburdened (film still)

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