‘The folded bird and the twisted sea’ 150 x 120cm Completed 👊🎆 ‘How much happier people must have been in the days when news travelled slowly, and wars and rumours of wars weren’t a daily diet, she thought to herself. In Nantucket, by ignoring the media, it was possible to recapture the mood of earlier times when people had only had to grapple with their personal problems and not take all the world’s troubles on their shoulders’ Anne Weale says it best in her Mills & Boon novel, (inspiring me right now) ‘Yesterday’s island’. Soon to be at @studiogallerymelbourne opening night exhibition, Melbourne, late February. #millsandboon #clairekirkup #clairekirkuppainting #contemporaryart #studiogallerymelbourne #openingexhibition #figurativecontemporaryart