Iomani - Lindsey Whitelaw
Lindsey’s Iomani 50 x 50 cm oil on canvas
This image is the original artwork that Lindsey showed to Samantha Leftwich, Anne Conduit, Elizabeth Manuel and Aleid Channing. She created further artwork based on their descriptions of what they saw when they looked at the original piece. Elizabeth painted her own responses.
This painting depicts the interior of a village house in Cyprus at dusk. We are looking through french doors with a with a light voile curtain appearing as a strip down the right hand side of the canvas. To the left this strip is echoed by a dark wall A red tiled floor leads the eye into the room and is interrupted by dust moats, a shaft of sunlight creating a white patch in the foreground.
The furniture is pushed aside and covered in dust sheets, possibly a cupboard or trunk forming a ghostly cube centre right. In the top left quadrant of the picture, a window on the back wall is being enlarged and has yet to be completed. It appears as a dark vertical rectangle in the background wall of pearly creamy grey.
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