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2000-2000 | WOA 5790
A long, rectangular abstract painting of foliage and trees. At the top of the painting are long, squiggly acorn leaves in blue and green tones with light brown and beige acorns scattered around them. Under the leaves the brown outline of a trunk is visible, and a tree painted in dark blue tones can be seen to the left, in the background. Below it, a plane tree leaf painted in blue and green, and floats in the foreground. The long, rounded parts of a horse chestnut tree leaf and chestnut are visible beside it. A thin brown stem cuts across the image below and turns into a long, silvery-blue leaf, dividing the composition so that the brown and reddish background colours are transformed to different tones of blue. Long, thin, red and pale greeny-yellow grass stems up from the right side of the image and behind them can be seen the head of a pheasant painted in red and black with a pale green beak. Its long stripy, brown tail pokes out from red and light green foliage below. To the left are long, yellow leaves which look like they are from a walnut or a Rowan tree and brown lines going upwards on a blue background that look like the branches of a leafless tree. Underneath is painted a brown silhouette of a rabbit sitting above long, slim, light blue leaves which cut the composition horizontally, announcing a dark blue background until the bottom of the image. Light, green sycamore leaves move across the image from right to left and below them, the sinuous outline of a brown and red striped snake lurks behind more foliage. In front of the snake, light green foliage resembling that of a wisteria tree rise from above from a fern, with curled leaves stretching across the image, painted in yellows, light greens and light blues. The fern is growing directly out of brown and red soil and below it, to the left are round spotted mushrooms and orange leaves to the right.
Thicket design for Millbank House tapestry commission
Christine Sawyer, designer2000-2000 | WOA 5790
Details
- Collection
- Parliamentary Art Collection
- Object type
- Drawing
- Description
- Thicket design for Millbank House tapestry commission, Drawing by Christine Sawyer. .
- Date Created
- 2000
- Creator
- Christine Sawyer, designer
- Production details
- Date drawn 2000
- Dimensions
- Frame Depth 10mm
- Frame Width 566mm
- Frame Height 1074mm
- Sight Width 496
- Sight Height 1006
- Materials
- Paper
Copyright
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- Image copyright
- UK Parliament
- Object copyright
- [Copyright] Sawyer, Christine; In copyright
- Image Credit
- Thicket design for Millbank House tapestry commission, Drawing by Christine Sawyer © Christine Sawyer, Photo credit: Parliamentary Art Collection WOA 5790