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Scottish salmon river
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Type: Original
Medium: Oil
Genre: Landscape
Artwork Size: 45cm (w) x 35cm (h)
Uploaded on: Wednesday 13th Sep, 2023
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£450
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This artwork is available to purchase
Type: Original
Medium: Oil
Genre: Landscape
Artwork Size: 45cm (w) x 35cm (h)
Uploaded on: Wednesday 13th Sep, 2023
Palette:
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This painting was commissioned as a gift, a souvenir of a special holiday. Using one of your holiday photos, could I perhaps make a painting of a special place for you? If so, please contact me on brook829@btinternet.com
I thought that this Hopkins poem evoked this kind of place -
Inversnaid
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
