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Charlotte Sometimes
Works
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Our English Coasts
(Jerusalem)
Acrylic on Canvas, 180x244cm,
2006
On permenent display @ Dean Clough
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Shadow of Death
Acrylic on Canvas, 144x144cm,
2005
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Drawings
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Portrait of the Artist
Nehemiah Hancock
Pencil on Paper, 41x30cm
2006.
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Mother & Child)
Pencil on Paper, 130x86cm
2006.
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Charlotte Sometimes
(The Beach)
Pencil on Paper, 77x57cm
2006.
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Charlotte Sometimes
(The Seat)
Pencil on Paper, 48x42cm
2006
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Charlotte Sometimes
(The Pillar)
Pencil on Paper, 48x42cm
2006.
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Our English Coasts)
Pencil on Paper, 57x39cm
2005
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Ophelia)
Pencil on Paper, 57x39cm,
2005
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Shadow of Death)
Pencil on Paper, 57x39cm,
2005
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Paintings
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Window)
Acrylic on Canvas, 40x30cm,
2005
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Parting)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2005
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Pillar)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2005
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(The Wall)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2005
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(England's Green and Pleasant Land)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2004
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Among These Dark Satanic Mills)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2004
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
(Shine Forth Upon Our Clouded Hills)
Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40cm,
2004
O
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Charlotte Sometimes
Since the tragic yearning which is central to Romanticism and the Gothic novel has been inspirational to contemporary movements in fashion and music the series Charlotte Sometimes is an essential exploration of the source material. The pastoral landscape here becomes the backdrop, replacing the artifice of inner city parks and the teenage bedroom featured in other series or works.
The Pre-Raphaelites and Alma-Tadema are of renewed interest, in particular their referencing of the Middle Ages became an inspiration to mimic a similar escapism from today to the Victorian era. Charlotte Sometimes was created as a body of work of a fictionalised Victorian artist, taking its cue from factual correspondence from the late 19th century. The story told is that of lost works re-enacted and the tragic depression and death/suicide of the artist's fiancee and muse Charlotte, who becomes the central character in this body of work. Charlotte is as much a heroine of the Victorian era as she is a darkly melancholic contemporary figure.
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