Dungeness Beach Ladder

£120.00

Gouache and pencil on Heavyweight Paper

A4 (210mm x 297mm) / Landscape

Unframed

Signed Original

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‘Dungeness Beach Ladder’ was inspired by a trip to the beautiful apocalyptic landscape of Dungeness where I found an abandoned ladder on the beach.

 

Over the course of Lathwood’s practice, ladders have been an important symbol of change, desire and aspiration. They are the quintessential tools to get over something, to conquer obstacles and shift a view point.

 

During the first Covid-19 lockdown she started a new series of gouache paintings of very small ladders on paper. The ladders were either drawn from imagination, observation or sent in by individuals also enthused by ladders.

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