λ MELITA DENARO (IRISH B. 1950)BIG ANNE'S WAKE, 2ND JANUARY 01 (II)Oil on boardTitled and inscribed (verso)13 x 18cm (5 x 7 in.)Whether Melita Denaro is watching a squally cloud, filled with water, change colour as it joins the sea; or a sunbeam illuminating a golden cow in a green corner of a meadow, she brings to her paintings a spiritual intensity that one has seen in the translucent Scapa Flow sunsets of Turner or when a kneeling woman is transformed into the Queen of Heaven by a Tiepolo shaft of sunlight. Robert Kime Melita Denaro's small scale panels are packed with energy and excitement. Denaro who grew up on the Isle of Doagh in County Donegal captures the wild landscapes, weathered surroundings, and extremes of nature. Denaro moved to London to study, training at the Central School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. She has been represented by John Martin Gallery since 2002 and has exhibited widely across London, New York and Ireland. Every year Denaro takes the pilgrimage from Hackney, where she lives to her childhood haunts on the Isle of Doagh. These weeks are spent recording moments in time directly onto the panels which trigger childhood memories and experiences growing up in the changeable atmosphere beside the Atlantic coast. The titles of the works Denaro produces draw on stories from the islanders and conversations held on this wild and free island.

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