Artist     Susan Caines
Title      Fish, Garlic and Mussels
Date      1990's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       51 x 61cm
Ref          883

Purchased from RWA Academicians’ exhibition in 1998

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Fish, Garlic and Mussels
It was seeing a primitive 13th century fresco of the ‘last supper’ painted by monks from Rimini in the refectory of the Abbey of Pomposa that acted as a catalyst for a series of still life paintings. The depiction of the table top executed with the precise placements of a few simple objects, minimal in concept and restrained in execution, with flattened space and spiritual intensity which attracted me.

I use oil paint thinly, always aware of the surface texture with a somewhat limited palette. In this painting, ‘Fish, Garlic and Mussels’, I was interested in keeping the objects with the dark circle but suddenly with a flourish ended with a triangle of white paper pinned down by mussels.

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