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JOCELYN BAILEY
My work tests what is visible, the imaginative,
and the intangible suits my poor eyesight.
It's of interest to me that Samuel Palmer was
short-sighted and that his paintings of that
time are quite small. I meant to work beyond
photo-representation, which I think bears part-
correlation with Samuel Palmer's visionary work.
As a star appears in my mind's eye, it radiates
all colours – whilst the chemistry and physics of
astronomy is incredible, that can be an aside,
and cameras and their lenses can make stars
less interesting. Physics can explain much of the
world, but not all of it, and I find that exploration
is both eye-opening and limiting, which Samuel
Palmer's Shoreham visionary work illustrates, in
my view.
Stars as they appear
Watercolour on laid printmaking paper
30 x 30 cm
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