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Mountain Girl Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.6 D in
About The Artwork
Last year, while we were on holiday in Ireland, I heard this mesmerising old time song on the radio - a woman singing plaintively over what sounded like a dulcimer drone backing - and strained to hear who it was by. I discovered the artist was Jean Ritchie and did a bit of research on her. Now in her 90s, she was brought up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and, because there was no radio out there, her family would sing their old songs and tell stories, many old ballads brought from Britain by her ancestors. Jean became a dulcimer player - the Appalachian lap version (not the banjo-ey thing that I bought off the internet from some hippy website in California ten or more years ago). My source for the painting was a famous black and white photo of the young Jean playing her dulcimer. However, for some reason I also appear to be channeling the actress Kate Beckinsale. Don’t know what’s going on there. The picture is done in what I think of as high folk-art style – so any subtle use of colour is purely unintentional. Part of my ongoing Irrational Portrait Gallery project.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
I am what is generally known as a new wave pop folk artist. Usually I work by sitting at a desk with my head in my hands staring at the wall for several weeks, before jumping up and doing a painting in a few minutes. After which I kiss it lovingly - though only when it's dry. My technique is based around putting down various colour layers - with hands, brushes, knives, bits of rag or old gloves - adding new colour quickly and then scratching away wet paint to show the layer below. This is in part an attempt to reveal the perceived mask/veneer of subjects, be they lanscapes, people or memories. It also works on a more sensual level, allowing me to attack my own paintings and crack them open a little bit. Although I'm now older than John Lennon was when he died, and Dino Zoff was when he collected a World Cup winner's medal, I like to think of myself as an emerging artist. I'm just emerging in slow motion.
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