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"CONTENTMENT"

This is an Original and framed 8" X 6" oil painting on a stretched canvas, ready to hang on the wall.

I am an artist born in Yorkshire and trained through the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where I was awarded the last Turner Gold Medal for painting. I have a passion for my Art, both Drawing and Painting. I want my art to tell a story. I am now in the "WHOS WHO IN ART", the “DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY“, and the “WORLD'S WHO'S WHO OF WOMEN”, as I am recognised to be one of “Britain's leading artists.”

I love to watch clowns performing, and living statues in our city, because there is a historical, social, and cultural connection of the clown to healing and transformation. A clown conveys a particular connection of the human need. The role of the clown, as I understand it, reflects the need to find joy in an often difficult life, and to accept the ambiguities contained within life. Even to forgive life, by tolerating it's a mess.

I have worked on a series of oil paintings inspired by Kahlil Gibran's poem Joy and Sorrow in his book The Prophet. I have strived to capture emotions. Clowns are so adept at expressing the many and varied emotions of being a person. They do this by being able to work between the good and the bad, the dark and the light, and thus, through paradox and ambiguity, to shed understanding on the whole range of feelings. This young man shares his joy. His fun in life. It is contentment.
I online hope you have found it interesting reading and looking at this clown.

I have a web at www.suemcmullen.com