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Creates Gallery, Monmouth

My Sheltered Sanctuary

Emerging Artist Award 2021

My Sheltered Sanctuary

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My Sheltered Sanctuary

£995.00

60cm x 60cm

Acrylic on Canvas

At the start of lock down we all needed somewhere to retreat to. Here I would go for inspiration and a cwtch. There is something so welcoming about being amongst a landscape that has existed and maintained much of its identity throughout time. Just watching the repetitive nature of a gentle sea retreating and exposing more and more land was very soothing. I positioned myself in this scene at the point where I had to stay safe so as not to fall yet could still see the many routes forward and down to the beach.

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Francine Davies


Inspired by the energetic feedback from natural environments I have felt compelled over time to find ways of expressing and sharing it through art. I am self taught and rely mostly on my background in Geography and Geology when I paint. I am fascinated with the movement of the sea, the feel of seawater and the positive benefits these environments hold for us. Furthermore, I am drawn to the textures and colours of the coastline and the impact of light and water on them. I spend considerable time in the sea and around our local coastline studying and experiencing my chosen subject. I strive to bring to my work a sensory element to help the viewer connect with a scene. Sometimes this is achieved through texture other times this is achieved through how I move the paint across the canvas.

I feel very much a novice at what I do yet quietly confident of my intentions when I am painting. I think it is this tension that adds a rawness to a scene that often surprises me. I get so much pleasure talking to people about how they feel about a painting and why they choose it. I love sitting and listening to them reminisce and interpret things that I could never have realised yet some how enabled through my work.