From the edge of darkness
Gilli Austin's acrylic on canvas created exclusively for The World's Wife Exhibition. Eighty artists were asked to create a piece of art to represent a poem from the book The World's Wife by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The poem that was used for this piece was called "Little Red cap". I decided to set the painting in a modern urban landscape, relievant to today. It is a modern twist on little red riding hood, where a younger girl is seduced by a much older wolf who woos her with love poems. She soon realises that she has been drawn into his dark ways and on realising he had infact murdered her grandmother she is felt betrayed. She then goes onto murder him in revenge. Not only one of my most ambitious pieces of art but also the darkest. I've joked that it's Hammer House of Horror meets Shameless meets Gardener's World!!! Showing at Obsidian Art, Layby Farm, Old Risborough Rd, Stoke Mandeville, Bucks HP22 5XJ. From the 13th April to 29th April 2012. Hope you enjoy!!!!
- Media:
Acrylics
- Subject:
Animal or Wildlife, Flowers or Gardens, Landscape or Woodland Scene, Portrait or Figure, Still Life, Townscape or Streetscene
- Size: 142.2 x 111.8 cm
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