£450
Clare WHITE (1903-1997) Inside Monreale Cathedral, Sicily Watercolour, signed, 38 x 49cm. St Ives artist Clare White had a passion for both painting and travel. She would set up her easel in some of Europe's most beautiful places, such as the stunning medieval cathedral of Monreale in Sicily, and take out her watercolours. As always with White's work, she unmistakably captures the grandeur of the architecture and the glory of the cathedral's unique Byzantine mosaics, but she creates a painting which very much presents her own perspective on them. Her joyous uncomplicated style, distinctive watercolour palette and artistic ability to fully immerse in the moment mean that the biblical figures in the mosaics respond to White in their facial expressions, and we can sense the quiet nuns walking in hushed reverence through the holy place.
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