I belong to a group of six women - four from England and two from France, calling ourselves Six Dames.
We completed our first two year challenge recently and have now begun our second.
Every third month one of us will decide on an artist and we must make a piece "in the style of" or at least as a response to that artist. The first artist was chosen by Claire Passmore and is Cesar Manrique. He is very well known in Lanzarote where he has had an enormous influence on the architecture and art of the country.
I had been to Lanzarote some years ago and had visited the Cesar Manrique gardens. I loved the wall that he had decorated and decided to use this idea myself, but to paint it with topical graffitti i.e. Covid-19 - as it is currently dominating our lives.
I kept the background sunny and cheerful in the hope that we will feel this way again some day!
We completed our first two year challenge recently and have now begun our second.
Every third month one of us will decide on an artist and we must make a piece "in the style of" or at least as a response to that artist. The first artist was chosen by Claire Passmore and is Cesar Manrique. He is very well known in Lanzarote where he has had an enormous influence on the architecture and art of the country.
I had been to Lanzarote some years ago and had visited the Cesar Manrique gardens. I loved the wall that he had decorated and decided to use this idea myself, but to paint it with topical graffitti i.e. Covid-19 - as it is currently dominating our lives.
I kept the background sunny and cheerful in the hope that we will feel this way again some day!
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