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Melita Denaro paints landscapes from her home on the Isle of Doagh in the Irish county of Donegal. In this episode, she talks about childhood memories, studying ceramics, working as an art teacher in a tough north London school, charming her way into the Royal Academy Schools, making a series on the Crucifixion based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, how she was persuaded to take up landscape painting en plain air, how light is the most important aspect of her works and how she copes with Multiple Sclerosis.
Melita Denaro talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
The Tragedy of War – The Troubles, Belfast
Head Study
Drawing based on Michelangelo’s Pieta
All images are © Melita Denaro
All This and Heaven Too is showing at the John Martin Gallery March 5-21
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
 By Bob Chaundy
By Bob Chaundy5
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Melita Denaro paints landscapes from her home on the Isle of Doagh in the Irish county of Donegal. In this episode, she talks about childhood memories, studying ceramics, working as an art teacher in a tough north London school, charming her way into the Royal Academy Schools, making a series on the Crucifixion based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, how she was persuaded to take up landscape painting en plain air, how light is the most important aspect of her works and how she copes with Multiple Sclerosis.
Melita Denaro talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
The Tragedy of War – The Troubles, Belfast
Head Study
Drawing based on Michelangelo’s Pieta
All images are © Melita Denaro
All This and Heaven Too is showing at the John Martin Gallery March 5-21
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

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