30 januari 2013

Jennifer Durrant


(bron: National Portrait Gallery, foto: Dennis Toff)


For twenty years, Jennifer Durrant RA's home and studio was a Regency cottage in Holly Grove, one of south London’s oldest and most distinctive streets, with its houses running along one side only, wedged between rattling trains and woodland shrubbery. Peckham Rye was yards away. Several Academicians lived or work nearby - Trevor Dannatt, Christopher Le Brun, Tom Phillips and Bill Woodrow. Durrant, though solitary within her walls, was part of an urban artists’ community, with allies close at hand.

Then eight years ago, she sold up and moved to Italy. Now she looks out on olive groves, vines and the Umbrian hills. The dominant noise is birdsong. The nearest railway station has the feel of Adlestrop station in Edward Thomas's famous poem about it. Her studio is on the hallowed grassy site which, in 217 BC, Hannibal crushed the Romans in the Second Punic War. (bron: Royal Acadamy of Arts, tekst: Fiona Maddocks, foto: Marco Giacomelli)

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