Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery 6/9/2012
Today a large group of us visited the art gallery in Blackburn in order to choose a subject that would be an inspiration within the theme of GRIDS LAYERS & REFLECTIONS, I chose a painting by
John Collier titled Hetty Sorrell.
BLACKBURN MUSEUM &ART GALLERY
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| HETTY SORRELL |
HETTY SORRELL
I noticed the anguish in the womans eyes and this made me want to know more about the painting. She was caught up in a love triangle and left her new born infant in the woods to die of exposure, she covers her ears so as not to hear the crying baby.
Hetty Sorrell is a fictitious character from the book Adam Bede by George Eliot 1859.
The expression on her face imediatly resembled the face of Myra Hindley . This is the controvertial tiny handprints painting of Hindley by Marcus Harvey.This will take me on a reflective journey through the human mind embracing the layers of sanity, insanity, psychosis and the influences on art and fashion both past and present.