"Shire Bridge"
Reworked with frame
I painted the original a couple of years ago: an idea of Frodo
and Sam enjoying one of the Shire’s little rivers’, perhaps at the
beginning of their journey when everything still felt enjoyably
adventurous in a very safe way. I liked the parallel between
these two by the river, and the earlier pair of Sméagol and
Déagol, and how their river trip ended. And both of those pairs
of friends are bound by the same ring.
This is a re-working made for the Tolkien art show ‘Evil in
the Shining Light’, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, through September 2015.
Original was acrylics on paper, 10 x 7.5″ Frame element by Stephen
Clulow on Flickr.
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