Grace O'Connor American, b. 1974
The Frisky Plank, 2020
Oil on canvas
Framed in a slim black wooden tray frame
Framed in a slim black wooden tray frame
20 x 20 cm
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I have found that setting up still life’s on the table where I work alongside my 9 year old daughter, 16 and 13 year old sons, has had the effect...
I have found that setting up still life’s on the table where I work alongside my 9 year old daughter, 16 and 13 year old sons, has had the effect of keeping us all focused on the work which we have to do.
I didn’t realise until making these small paintings that the toy figurine depicted is an artist with a little palette on it’s head. Moments of feeling like I am at once drowning and walking the plank occur every day, when you veer from happy times to those fraught with tension and worry.
‘The Frisky Plank’ ( a wonderful line from Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’, life is so precarious, you never know which way it will go.)
I didn’t realise until making these small paintings that the toy figurine depicted is an artist with a little palette on it’s head. Moments of feeling like I am at once drowning and walking the plank occur every day, when you veer from happy times to those fraught with tension and worry.
‘The Frisky Plank’ ( a wonderful line from Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’, life is so precarious, you never know which way it will go.)
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