Poet's Shroud

Original acrylic on canvas by David Page

150x150cm unframed

157x157cm framed in chunky white 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.

Louis MacNeice's provides a two part clue to me, how to go about
painting and for this I turn to his poem 'Train to Dublin' as my tutor.
The first clue is his use of the early twentieth century exploration of a
variable viewpoint as captured in the flashing images that pass the
train window in quick time.

The second is the quality in his writing of densification of what he
calls in the first line of the poem, 'half-thoughts', into as dense a
written space as possible. Not catching a moment but many moments
in close proximity, in different moods and lights. In that way he
captures the racing mind in his poetic net just as the painting seeks to
do.

Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems 1925-1948 by Louis MacNeice p83,
Faber and Faber 1949