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Red Silk Dress £300.00
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Original oil painting of a 1930s/40s pure silk red dress on canvas by Caroline Brown. Beautifully drawn in pencil at life size, painted with vivid scarlet red and with an almost ghostly aura. The background is mainly white with misty hints of blues and greens.

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SIZE: 70cm x 110cm

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From the Tender Ghosts series of paintings which explores how places and objects absorb vibrations of history. The ghosts of past lives lingering unseen in the fabric of a building, or in the unknown history of inanimate objects -remnants from everyday life. Fragile links between today and yesterday.

Discovering and revealing a trace of human presence in the tattered pages of an old book, in the age spots on a mirror, in the tired stitches of long-unworn clothes. A hidden story suggested by imperfections – frayed, chipped, rusty, torn…

Caroline dearly loves the red dress, found in a secondhand shop in Brighton. It has tiny holes on the front, which Caroline imagines were caused by ash falling from a cigarette at a party in the 1940s