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ILLUSTRATION / PAINTING / PHILOSOPHY

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EXHIBITION : '​​STANZAS & SKETCHES'

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'A selection of drawings, paintings and etchings inspired by words courtesy of poets of the past. 
​The exhibition objective; to determine whether a viewers reaction to writing is impacted more or less when accompanied by visual stimulus. '

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'When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams
before my 'mind’s eye' flit,

 And the bare heath of life
presents no bloom;

Sweet Hope, ethereal balm
upon me shed,
And wave thy silver
​pinions o’er my head.'

'Whene’er I wander, at the fall of night,
Where woven boughs shut out
the moon’s bright ray,

Should sad Despondency
my musings fright,
And frown, to drive
fair Cheerfulness away,

Peep with the moon-beams
through the leafy roof,
And keep that fiend Despondence
​far aloof.'

'Should Disappointment,
parent of Despair,
Strive for her son to seize
my careless heart.

When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air,
     Preparing on his spell-bound
prey to dart: 
Chase him away, sweet Hope,
​with visage bright,

And fright him as the
​morning frightens night!'

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- J O H N   K E A T S ,   ' T O   H O P E ' ,   S T A N Z A S   1 - 3 .       ​I N K   A N D   A C R Y L I C   O N   P A P E R.

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- L A  B R U Y E R E ,   ' T H A T   W E   S U F F E R   O U R S E L V E S   T O   B E   G O V E R N E D.'
I N K   A N D   G R A P H I T E   O N   P A P E R.

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- ​V A L I D I V A R ,  ' A N   A S S O R T M E N T   O F   T R E A S U R E S  H E A P E D   H I G H . ' 
​O I L   O N   L I N E N .

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- ​' R U T H ' .  ​G R A P H I T E   A N D  C O N T E   O N   P A P E R .

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- V A L I D I V A R ,   ' N A T U R E ' S   S O L U T I O N. '  ​G R A P H I T E  A N D   P E N C I L   O N   P A P E R . ​

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