Re-imaging the Book of Durrow
By Warwick RavertyType: Painting
Technique: Gilded, Painted
Material: Acrylics, Metal, Paper, Watercolour
Width: 67cm | Height: 48cm
Production date: 2020
The work is a reproduction of the opening double page of St John’s Gospel in the Book of Durrow. I have created the work on rag paper using archival watercolours, acrylic ink with added gesso and 24 carat gold leaf embellishment aimed at giving the modern viewer an appreciation of the. wonder and awe with which 7th and 8th century readers of the manuscript must have held the pages.
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