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b Drawing Attention

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove, BN3 2AD

Annelies Clarke is showing the making of her new painting The Ship of Fools in the Marketplace with drawings, photos and instructions for traditional egg tempera and home-made oil paints. The show also includes her Revelation triptych.

Workshops:
Annelies Clarke – Sat 17 May, 14.00-16.00 drawing in pen, ink and watercolour washes
Fiona Springham – Sat 10 and 24 May, 11.30-15.30 introduction to sewing

For more info see Annelies’s News webpage below.

Type of venue:

community

Facilities

Card Payment Facility
Disabled access
Easy parking
Garden open
Tap water refill available
Workshops/demonstrations

Archived open house

Contact

07808 532451
[email protected]
www.anneliesclarke.com

Location:

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove, BN3 2AD

A busy picture of a ship full of people having fun, eating and drinking and making music. They are sitting half in the water, the boat is leaking and not at all sea worthy. A beautiful lady in a peacock’s dress is stepping out of the boat. Behind her is a man dressed up to his neck in an old-fashioned money bag. The boat is in the shape of Aladdin's lamp with the handle of the lamp in the shape of a scorpion's tail, curling up, with the sting supporting a crow's nest. In the crow’s nest stands a king, who is looking through binoculars that he is holding the wrong way round. Two men in black and white striped prison clothes are carrying a heavy load of rolls of purple and scarlet silk into a market place. The scorpion’s tail is made up of containers holding pearls, precious stones, wine, and spices. A clumsy sailor is trying to pick up the container of pearls and some of the pearls fall down before some pigs that are swimming in the water of the leaky boat. On the side of the boat, half in the water, is a man who is rubbing the golden boat, in wishful thinking. A large crowd is standing on the quay. The goods that are carried off the ship follow their way through the market into the wide open mouth of one of the seven heads of a red leopard, that looks like a gate leading into Babylon.

The Ship of Fools in Babylon's harbour (detail of the Revelation triptych)
Annelies Clarke

In this detail of the Revelation triptych a young girl with a lamp is about to go up stone stairs onto a rocky path that leads to a woman sitting on a rock with an open book in her hand, looking up into the light. Behind the girl with the lamp an earthquake is happening and large hailstones are falling down. Black and white birds are flying around her and towards an angel standing in the sunlight. In the background is a skull with an open mouth with what look like figures flying out of it.

About Time, the Revelation triptych (detail)
Annelies Clarke
egg tempera and oils on panel, 2.44m wide x 1.60m high
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an overview in over a hundred illustrations of the 22 chapters of the Book of Revelation

About Time - The Revelation triptych
Annelies Clarke
egg tempera and oil on panel, 2.44m x 1.60m
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[email protected] 07808 532451 Three videos accompany the triptych. You can find them on www.anneliesclarke.com/projects/videos

Two young women stand in a fancy dress shop trying on different clothes. on the wall behind them are shelves with masks of politicians and pop stars of the late nineties

Masquerade
Annelies Clarke
oil on panel, 92-58cm high x 40cm wide
£5000

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a long branch of cotton against a deep blue watercolour background

Cotton
Annelies Clarke
framed Giclée print of a watercolour, 101cm high x 27.5cm wide
£175

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a semi-abstract picture in browns and blues of people helping people with a wooden fence turning into pink and gold. This painting was made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the charity for the homeless Off The Fence

Restoration
Annelies Clarke
framed Giclée print of a painting in oil, watercolour and goldleaf, 45cm x 57.5cm
£185

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A beautiful old bridge in the sunshine. Blue damselflies dance over the water. A strange group is crossing the bridge, with an ivory tower, a red horse and lots of people on their phones

Coming over the Bridge
Annelies Clarke
oil on canvas, 122cm x 91cm
£4000

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An ancient twisted olive tree whose bark is full of mysterious faces

Song of the Olive Tree
Annelies Clarke
oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm
£5000

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an old painter's palette made into a clock with an old paint brush for pendulum

Palette clock
Annelies Clarke
painter's palette and brush, 28cm x 58cm
£85

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a brightly coloured standing figure holding on tightly to an armful of coloured shapes

Treasures
Annelies Clarke
unframed watercolour, 48cm x 115cm
£85

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