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CJ Munn
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20-Apr-2004
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Started On : 06-Jul-2007 at 02:28:48 PM, #Views : 6393
Topic Subject : Had trouble uploading to the gallery |
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I can't seem to be able to upload anything to the gallery any more, so I thought I'd try here instead because I'm quite proud of this piece. It's very personal, took a very long time (and several headaches, before I remembered I'm supposed to wear glasses for fine, close work), and is probably the first thing I've ever made that matches in reality exactly how I imagined it to be in my head before I started it.
The piece is called 'A Very English Pregnancy'.
Creating a new life often encourages us to think about our roots and culture - we can see we're creating the future, so we long to understand our past more. This pregnancy cast was created to reflect my own very English upbringing - inspired by the antique jugs and bowls around my childhood home, the very lovely garden I was blessed to have to play in as a child and of all strange things, a decorative Victorian toilet bowl in my local museum that I've always loved. I was brought up to value mother's 'best china' and to handle it with enormous care even from a young age, and to know which pieces had been passed down the generations and the stories about the previous owners that had also been handed down the generations (such as the beautiful serving dish that my great great grandmother used to serve mince pies at Christmas to her employers - a rich but unkind Victorian family. Legend tells that when she helped the cook make the pies before serving them with a smile, she lifted the pastry lids on every single one and spat in them as revenge for her ill-treatment as their serving girl). :o)
This is my addition to the family collection of 'precious things'. I'm now working on a few other pieces inspired by the beautiful William Morris prints that adorned our home, and our neighbours homes in the forms of curtains, cushion covers and even tea cloths in the 1970s. These floral designs in tasteful muted colours were another part of my childhood that bring back so many memories when I see the same print reproduced on a desk diary or modern lampshade. It's quite a step away from my normal style, particularly because I'm not terribly proud of my culture most of the time. But I've found a little corner of my own family history that I do love, and wanted to honour it in my art while I still had a steady enough hand to paint all those fiddley little flowers. ;o)
cj
http://www.rockabelly.co.uk
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