Title
Crackled iris suns for eyes
‘Brilliant and yellow, brilliant.
But not now, not yet!’ (D.H.L)
Find that flame.
Details
96 x 60cm
Soft pastel and charcoal on paper
Process
This work continues my exploration of the orb as heart, furnace and sun. It revisits a composition established in my earlier charcoal work 'Let's move out West' (2024), carrying over structural line works and intensively layered mark-making, with a striking introduction of colour.
References
"Brilliant and yellow, brilliant. But not now, not yet!" is a line in the penultimate letter from Oliver Mellors to Connie in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).
"Find that flame" is a line from the poem 'No Other Kind of Light' by the 14th-century persian poet Hafiz. Translated by Daniel Ladinsky.