Saturday, 29 March 2014

Lines on Tintern Abbey


Sometime at the start of 1300, "midway along the road" Dante was lost in a dark forest. To survive this ordeal, he had to visit the three realms of the afterlife, accompanied by Virgil who suggested that first they stock up at the local Aldi. Eight centuries and a bit later at Vevgeny Huxtable's Art Studio in a Hove mews, Lucien Jung is supervising the ten week art course. Kugarita Zinfandel is painting a rural landscape in which, inexplicably, a leopard, a she-wolf and a lion are lurking in the woods beyond a ruined Gothic castle. Sister Veracitude is also painting, but her images are more abstract. Her water-colour portrait of a mid-century Archbishop of Canterbury looks like a monkfish.

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