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The How and Why Wonder Painting of Love

'The How and Why Wonder Painting of Love' borrows its title from the marvellous series of illustrated children’s science books published in the 1960s and 1970s. Outdone only in the scope of ambition by ‘Enquire within upon everything’. In this painting an unlaboured image of a white dinosaur shape appears suspended by some grey utilitarian device as if undertaking guided travel through a sub aquatic plant-scape. In the background a mustard yellow plane is broken by a sketchy ‘starry night’ window view. The tail of the creature breaks out of the first inner scraped frame, but is neatly cropped off by an outer burgundy frame. The style is depictive, loose and playful and is assured in its unadult...
2020
oil on linen
30.0 x 40.0cm
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Image © John Wyatt-Clarke
Text © Tom Hackett for a-n

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