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Philip Dawes Fine Art Gallery
Gallery Three -
General Subjects -
6
Sylvana dreaming
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Picture title: Sylvana dreaming. View
of Ischia Ponti from a small nun's
cell in the cathedral at Castello Aragonese, Ischis. 1979.
Oil on canvas. Size: 27-1/2" x 19-3/4" (70cm x 50cm)
Available.
Sylvana was a young girl
of about fourteen I met in Ischia Ponti, in the summer of 1979 and,
using sign language, asked her if she would sit for me for a
painting up in the castle. I indicated that it would be over several
days, and so we made the date. When I met her on that first occasion
she was dressed in ordinary inexpensive and unflattering cloths, and
on the day she came she was all spruced up looking a peach in a
nicely ironed light pink blouse and skirt. After a few hours into
the work I asked her several times if she would like to have a rest,
but she insisted that she did not want to and wished to remain
seated, motionless without having a brake.
Sylvana sat for me returning over a three day period, and the
painting took several more days for completion. The location within
the castle was a small room, called a cell, that a nun would live
in, with the window being just a hole in the wall. The difficulty of
my vantage point working in this tiny room was insufficient space
and light, because the walls were bare stone with little light
reflection.
This painting was amongst a number I exhibited at the municipality
after winning the open painting competition in 1979. |
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