Inspired By Verse The Owl & The Pussycat
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Julia Skrebels
My art practice has evolved in response to my interest in landscape and local history. Since completing my degree in 2006 I have been experimenting with art processes, particularly oil painting and photography to create a body of work based on a small area of land near my home which I know intimately.
For this exhibition I have used the poem Time by Khalil Gibran as my starting point. This is an extract from a larger work, The Prophet, which was published in 1923. Whilst using Google Earth I was surprised to see a shape, a rectangle with rounded corners, visible from the air but not on the ground. This evidence of layers of history just beneath the surface which we cannot see but are aware of seemed to fit well with the poem and its message of life’s timelessness.