Paintings Recent
RECENT | OUTLIERS | THE COURT OF REDONDA | BOOT PAINTINGS
2017-2019 | 2011-2016 | 2005-2010 | 1999-2004 | 1986-1998
2017-2019 | 2011-2016 | 2005-2010 | 1999-2004 | 1986-1998
These paintings, - made during the Covid year - are about close, but unbridgeable separation. Their title, 'Snail Love (Catalani)’, references the opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani. Set in the Alps as winter descends. Two lovers become sundered by the deep snow on opposite sides of the the valley. They sing across the chasm: sound, sight, but no touch. In the paintings these inamorati become snails; determined, persistent.... but unable to jump. I see these images as little love poems. (SC)
In areas of high illiteracy, pharmacists will often advertise treatments directly on their shop fronts, as pictograms. Malaria is a more complicated word than a picture of a mosquito. This group of paintings are my reference of these symbols. (SC)