Dog Days are Over
Dog Days are Over, egg tempera on panel, 43 × 43 cm, 2024
‘Dog days are the hot and humid period of summer between early July and early September.’ It is also the title of a song by Florence and the Machine. I heard it on the live stream of Prom 69 earlier this summer. A reviewer in the guardian writes about it as being, ‘a kind of ecstasy that you rarely get to feel without chemical intervention.’
When I painted this I was in my Joy and Hope Project. I began it after talking with people about my work in Snape Maltings and realising that my paintings could evoke Joy. The words, ‘joy’ and ‘hope’ are also associated with the Harris Walz campaign. I made a list of songs that make me feel joyful and played them as I worked. This title is also me wishing away the chaos that seems to be in the world now.
This painting isn’t so much about Joy as it is about peace. Guanyin holds her buddha. There is an offering of crab apples, a pair of scabiosa plucked from the field, a vintage crumb brush stands alongside a bird of prey to keep things civilised.
Dog Days are Over, egg tempera on panel, 43 × 43 cm, 2024
‘Dog days are the hot and humid period of summer between early July and early September.’ It is also the title of a song by Florence and the Machine. I heard it on the live stream of Prom 69 earlier this summer. A reviewer in the guardian writes about it as being, ‘a kind of ecstasy that you rarely get to feel without chemical intervention.’
When I painted this I was in my Joy and Hope Project. I began it after talking with people about my work in Snape Maltings and realising that my paintings could evoke Joy. The words, ‘joy’ and ‘hope’ are also associated with the Harris Walz campaign. I made a list of songs that make me feel joyful and played them as I worked. This title is also me wishing away the chaos that seems to be in the world now.
This painting isn’t so much about Joy as it is about peace. Guanyin holds her buddha. There is an offering of crab apples, a pair of scabiosa plucked from the field, a vintage crumb brush stands alongside a bird of prey to keep things civilised.
Dog Days are Over, egg tempera on panel, 43 × 43 cm, 2024
‘Dog days are the hot and humid period of summer between early July and early September.’ It is also the title of a song by Florence and the Machine. I heard it on the live stream of Prom 69 earlier this summer. A reviewer in the guardian writes about it as being, ‘a kind of ecstasy that you rarely get to feel without chemical intervention.’
When I painted this I was in my Joy and Hope Project. I began it after talking with people about my work in Snape Maltings and realising that my paintings could evoke Joy. The words, ‘joy’ and ‘hope’ are also associated with the Harris Walz campaign. I made a list of songs that make me feel joyful and played them as I worked. This title is also me wishing away the chaos that seems to be in the world now.
This painting isn’t so much about Joy as it is about peace. Guanyin holds her buddha. There is an offering of crab apples, a pair of scabiosa plucked from the field, a vintage crumb brush stands alongside a bird of prey to keep things civilised.
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