Blue

Original acrylic on canvas by David Page

100x100cm unframed

framed in floating frame with Ink Blue outer frame

More by David Page

This body of work by David Page is part of an exhibition titled 'Our Land' which launches in Canvas Galleries September 26th 2024.

Richard Kirkland writes that there were in Michael Longley’s
estimation three 'energetic spurts' in 20th century Northern Ireland
poetry . May Morton was one of a group of poets including John
Hewitt responsible for the mid-century spurt. Her poetry imbues the
landscape with feminine sensibility, Kirkland calls it an ‘erotically
charged delight in the Ulster countryside’. This painting inspired by
her poem 'Blue' is one such piece from a remarkable collection called
'Dawn and Afterglow' all the more poignant as it has a poem called
'Sunset off Mull', my other home.

May Morton, Dawn and Afterglow, Quota Press
Richard Kirkland, The Politics of Partition: Poetry and Northern
Ireland in the 1940s p219 - p224 in the Oxford Handbook of Modern
Irish Poetry, (Fran Brearton and Adam Gillis Ed), Oxford University
Press