Our Land

Original acrylic on canvas by David Page

120x120cm unframed

127x127cm framed in double tray style with studio green outer frame

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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.

Like May Morton and John Hewitt, Patrick Kavanagh imbues the land,
the soil, the growth with human personality as he writes, 'You clogged
the feet of my boyhood'.
His words are tactile, get between your nails and dirty your palms,
just as in this painters mark making. He was a farmer come poet and
his memories of the fields seem bitter sweet. Amidst the verses of his
poem ‘Stony Grey Soil’ he gives the working of the soil a voice and
from our contemporary perspective, a warning;
'O green-life-conquering plough!’

Patrick Kavenagh, An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, (Wes Davis
Ed) p69, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press