james Clayden: breath paintings
04.03.26 - 02.04.26
Installation Images
Of patience, penance, prayer WORLD-MOTHERING AIR, AIR WILD, WOUND WITH THEE, IN THEE ISLED, FOLD HOME, FAST FOLD THY CHILD
Gerard Manly Hopkins
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Last year while restoring some earlier works on paper l was drawn back into the unique poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins, for l had taken certain words from his verse as titles for eight large paintings exhibited at Deutscher Brunswick St in 1990. The eleven studies were made in preparation for the larger works on canvas and can be found on the last pages herein.
The Breath Paintings came out of that contemplation. This document is to give some background for anyone that's interested in such stuff.
JAMES CLAYDEN
