(This painting won the Emerson Award for Young Woman Artist, 2021 and the Women In Art  Prize People's Vote, 2021)  

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It is inspired by the poem Gray Room by Wallace Stevens, published in 1917: 

 

‘Although you sit in a room that is gray,

Except for the silver

Of the straw-paper,

And pick

At your pale white gown;

Or lift one of the green beads

Of your necklace,

To let it fall;

Or gaze at your green fan

Printed with the red branches of a red willow;

Or, with one finger,

Move the leaf in the bowl--

The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia

Beside you...

What is all this?

I know how furiously your heart is beating.’ 

 

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