Ekphrastic Sonata: To A Fly Trapped In Amber by Mark Sheeky
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G1086A Ekphrastic Sonata: To A Fly Trapped In Amber
Oil on canvas panel
February 2019, Size 385x285 mm

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About this painting
Created for Ekphrastic Towers, an exhibition staged and arranged by John F. Keane of the Write Out Loud group, and Katherine Rosati of Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery. Ekphrasis is a painted or visual description of a poem or written work, and the exhibition explored the transformation and evolution of artistic ideas across different media and different artists and poets.

This painting was inspired by a poem with the same title 'To a Fly in Amber' by John F. Keane. To visually unify the three works in this small series I chose another painting, 'The Death of Chatterton' by Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, so each of these paintings includes elements from both the poem, and The Death of Chatterton. Due to a tight deadline, all three paintings were painted in a week at the end of February 2019.

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