Poppy Faun | The Chair Basketball Collage 2023 The White Rose (Pink Mount)

The White Rose (Pink Mount) presents the same composition as the black mount version but with a colour context that transforms its meaning: the pink mount bringing warmth and a quality of unexpected softness to a subject defined by its hardness

just golfers and the vast weight of national expectation

' a striking original painting by acclaimed artist Vincent Devine

dense with material incident — carries that weight without illustration

Poppy Faun | The Chair Basketball Collage 2023 The White Rose (Pink Mount)Poppy Faun The Chair Original oil painting Retro surrealism The Chair is a quietly unnerving work in Poppy Faun's retro surrealist practice a painting in which a mundane domestic object becomes the focus for a meditation on presence and absence, on the person who was sitting there and is no longer, on the chair as a kind of portrait of its occupant. Faun's technique combines the visual language of mid century illustration with a surrealist sensibility