Field Painting

Original acrylic on canvas by David Page

150x150cm unframed

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

This painting echoes a common theme of Irish poets: the field. The
enclosures of the mid-1800s, recorded in early mapping, established
the tracery-like pattern that drapes the landscape. Patrick Kavanagh's
poem ‘Ploughman’ observes how the plough overturns the ‘lea-green’
and ‘paints the meadow brown.’

Patrick Kavenagh, An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, (Wes Davis
Ed) p67, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press