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SUE TAYLOR-LOWEN
My response to Samuel Palmer's work is inspired by two
pieces, 'Valley Thick With Corn' and 'The Magic Apple
Tree'. I have worked with the landscape shapes in Valley
Thick With Corn, excluding human and animal presence,
only marking the place where the man had been reading,
lying against a tree stump. What remains is a crushed
bed of corn. The colours in my work are inspired by those
in The Magic Apple Tree. I tried to work with Samuel
Palmer's aim of enhancing richness and luminosity, by
adding extra gum arabic to my watercolours. Samuel
Palmer was a devout Christian, drawn to churches. In my
artwork the hills are a network of shapes, colour and light
which suggest the stained glass windows of a church.
Harvest is a theme in both Samuel Palmer works I have
chosen, principally apples and corn. These features I have
enhanced in my artwork with small glass beads in clear
acrylic gel.
Joy
Mixed media
50 x 50 cm
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