Christopher Hanlon

Christopher Hanlon 'Penumbra' oil on linen stretched over board 40×25cm (16"×10") 2011,  photo Andy Keate, courtesy domobaal

Penumbra

oil on linen stretched over board 40×25cm (16"×10") 2011
photo by Andy Keate

Chris Hanlon: "The starting point for the image of 'Penumbra' was the back of a head of a Roman statue. There is a heightened sense of unreality, it is almost as if from another planet. The hair is nothing like hair, more like water or clouds, abstract and icy. Apocalypse was in mind. I imagined a shadow silently creeping over it after all life on earth had vanished."

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