Description
London 19.07 Sky News
Oil on birch wood panel
30 x 40 x 3cm
2022
London 19.07 Sky News was painted from a news report on fires in London caused by the 40 degree heatwave, which spread through several houses. I painted it from a film made by a Sky News drone which flew over the site on 19 July, taking photos of my tv screen as it aired.
The painting is in oil on a braced birch wood panel with clean wooden edges. It doesn’t need framing but can be should you prefer.
It was painted as part of a project I undertook in 2022 to paint a year of reportage images on the effects of climate change. I painted 46 works in 12 months. You can read more about the project in my News section. From October 2023 – April 2024 the entire project titled You And I Are Earth was exhibited at Firstsite Museum and Gallery in Colchester, Essex.
My aim in painting the project was to pause on these dramatic images, which are fed to us through our tvs and phones and can pass us by in under a second. I wanted to see what an entire year of my edit of these images would look like. Spending time with each had a profound effect on me.
10% of this sale will be donated to Greenpeace.
