Ben Crawford Irish, b. 1983
A brief season of golden hours, 2022
Oil, acrylic, oil stick and charcoal on linen
168 x 153 cm
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I made my painting ‘a brief season of golden hours’ thinking about a place, but more specifically a time period in that place. When my children were born, we lived...
I made my painting ‘a brief season of golden hours’ thinking about a place, but more specifically a time period in that place. When my children were born, we lived on a banana plantation. We had a clothesline strung between two camphor laurel trees and my wife would play with the kids under the drying laundry, watching the sun set behind the hills. This painting is about that beautiful, fleeting time in my family’s life when my kids were small and innocent, my wife and I were relatively young and healthy and all those ‘golden hours’ together were so happy and precious. I think it’s a ‘place’ a lot of people get to experience in their lives, if only briefly, before life gets more complicated.
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