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The Dreams of Artists

This was very much a restful painting made alongside more torturous work. It explores the freedom of a sketchbook and was an exercise in maintaining the openness and incomplete investigation that a sketchbook can hold, within a painting. It combines work from a number of sketches, although the main composition and colour palette is evolved from one particular drawing. 

Oil on canvas

Man Plant 1758632172 Charlotte Houlihan

Dance of the Life Class

The Artist's Table Cloth

Man & Plant

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