Description
Senegal 30.03 Ngouda Dione
Oil on birch wood panel
30 x 40 x 3cm
2022
Senegal 30.03 Ngouda Dione was painted from a news report on Reuters about the search for water in Senegal due to drought. The title refers to the place, date and source for the painting. I was drawn to the image because of the human plight when faced with such a drought. Drought is a huge issue exacerbated by climate change but is difficult to illustrate in image form. This photo taken by Ngouda Dione is seemingly a drone photo and clearly illustrates the dry landscape. It was painted by using washes of thin oil upon a yellow ground, on top of which I added trees the figures and some shading.
The painting was exhibited at New English Art Club annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London in 2025.
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 put a 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.
