JUNE NELSON
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    • Portrayals
    • Moving Still Lifes
    • Histos
    • Some Drawings
    • Sandbag Haiku
    • The Life of Henrietta Somerset
    • Caravanserai
    • Lessons in Cartography
    • The Cabinet of Imagined Mirrors
    • Mirrors that Hide
    • Coast/Topos
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Portrayals

The Silence, 2020 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)
Oil painting on wooden panel of three masked women in sea, stripes, bathers, bathing hats
The Three Grac(i)es, 2020 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)
Oil painting, three women, vintage, bathing suits
The Bathers I, 2018 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)
Oil painting, two females, sun, green, pink
The Bathers II, 2018 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)
Sketchbook, collage, vintage, woman, climber, rope
These paintings and sketchbook drawings of women were inspired by old news footage and photographs from the 1920s and 1930s. They arose from an interest in female voices and female agency. The Three Grac(i)es and The Silence were selected by curator, consultant and arts speaker, Jo Baring, for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, London 2020. 
Oil painting, two women, bathers, vintage, pink, green
The Friends, 2018 (oil on canvas)
Oil painting, woman, pointing, bather, vintage, pink
This Way, 2018 (oil on canvas 26x18cm)
Oil painting, girl, balancing, girder, vintage, yellow, blue
The Girl on the Girder, 2018 (oil on canvas 40x30cm)

Further Portrayals

The series Caravanserai hints at the dweller within, without portraying the individua. The paintings offer limited information to the viewer, merely suggesting ungraspable, individual narratives. 
A suite of insect boxes  build a portrait of The Life of Lady Henrietta Somerset, until now preserved in only one oil painting and barely mentioned in history again
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Caravan paintings, Sister Wendy Beckett, Dungeness, pairs

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