Original artwork description:

A still life, assembled from postcards on a sunlit windowsill. A muscular Rodin bust of Victor Hugo, in postcard form, a Guernsey beach, a dead moth. A shrine (to Rodin, Hugo, to childhood holidays), a memento mori, a trompe l'oeuil of images, forms and planes and frames.

Materials used:

oil on linen on board

Tags:
#blue #still life #white #sky #grey #holiday #shadow #vacation #postcard #postcards #bust #moth #vanitas #memento mori #shrine #vanitas still life #rodin #frames #guernsey #victor hugo 

Still Life: Hugo, Moth (2014) Oil painting
by Richard Allen

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A still life, assembled from postcards on a sunlit windowsill. A muscular Rodin bust of Victor Hugo, in postcard form, a Guernsey beach, a dead moth. A shrine (to Rodin, Hugo, to childhood holidays), a memento mori, a trompe l'oeuil of images, forms and planes and frames.

Materials used:

oil on linen on board

Tags:
#blue #still life #white #sky #grey #holiday #shadow #vacation #postcard #postcards #bust #moth #vanitas #memento mori #shrine #vanitas still life #rodin #frames #guernsey #victor hugo 
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Richard Allen's work uses gestural brush strokes and thickly applied oil paint; it is based on intense observation exploiting the tension between the directly recorded and the photographically reproduced. ... Read more

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