Stephanie Fuller
Deal, Kent
I am a professional artist and have been exhibiting in Art Galleries, Museums and Art Fairs around the world for 35 years.
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My first reaction to Covid-19 has been this large painting of England and France from an aerial perspective. I live on the Kent coast opposite Calais. As a child I often looked through my father’s 3D surveyor glasses at aerial survey photographs, fascinated by the trees, or spikey dots, jumping up at me and the changes in terrain.
Early in the Lockdown, I was in quarantine and realised I needed something familiar and contemplative as my subject. I wanted a painting to get lost in every day, something familiar with no pressure. My subconscious took over and the familiar became unfamiliar with a merging of the images of Covid-19 that we see online and a geographical map of where I live.
The flow of this painting moves from the beauty and calm of the translucent sea to the spikey hashtags, dots and shapes on the land. Like looking under a microscope at a virus, the land pulsates with movement and action. Shapes float and move over the canvas, some fast some slow like outbreaks of Covid-19 and isolation bubbles.
This painting is about the transition from the way our lives were before and how they will become as we move out of Lockdown.
- Subject Matter: Covid-19 and Pandemic
- Collections: 2020 Vision, Current Avaliable Paintings
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