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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 47.2x47.2in
About this artwork
80x80cm £850
THE EXECUTIONER
The Mary Dugdale Award for Portraiture
Max MacCabe Trophy
Throughout my life, health challenges have been a constant battle. I have developed strategies to manage the pain and prevent it from ruling my life. One of the most powerful, yet most difficult, is the skill of detachment: the ability to detach from the pain that threatens to stop me.
This work explores the intense mental… discipline required to control the dark side of my existence. The fractured, multi-perspective composition reflects the confusion and struggle of the process.
The severed head of the executioner rests upon a block. This depicts my ability to execute the suffering, severing the pain from its ability to control me. The painting itself is shown to be slipping away from the canvas, a visual metaphor for the deliberate separation from pain, physically, emotionally and mentally.
Janice Lightowler
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Works on commission