Under the Dock Leaves #2 Sweatshirt

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Under the Dock Leaves, Richard Doyle (1824-1883), Popular enthusiasm for fairy tales reached its peak in the nineteenth century. The Punch artist Richard, or 'Dicky', Doyle (1824-1883) was fascinated by them and his work as an illustrator included William Allingham's In Fairyland published in 1870. His nephew was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, who famously believed in the authenticity of the Cottingley fairy photographs. These were images of 'real' fairies taken by two young girls in 1920 who actually used cut-out watercolours.The naturalism of the landscape in Under the Dock Leaves, contrasts with the element of fantasy. The tiny scale of the fairies is emphasised by placing them alongside dock leaves and a kingfisher which we know to be small in the observed world.

From the time I was a child I have been intrigued with the patterning of light and the interaction of color. In the course of my life path I fell away from any sense of creative freedom, working from what I thought was expected of me. Through the long process of releasing an imposed belief system and replacing it with my own experiences and truths I have become able, emotionally and spiritually to access my child spirit through my adult educated mind. I am powerfully influenced by the passionate colors of the Italian High Renaissance and the gestural freedom of Impressionism and abstract expressionism. The spirituality of the theories in these genres has also had a great impact on me. In my work I seek to establish the intricate web...