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These three work so cleverly together with the stripes indentifying each animal. The contrast texture of the background gives a wonderful wild grass look. Great piece. Diana

Thanks very much, Diana and Dennis.

Lovely painting - it shows haw the stripes work to confuse the viewer.

Love this Jenny, like an optical illusion.

Thanks very much Linda and Carole - I guess it does create a kind of optical illusion, hadn't thought of it in that way before!

Hang on Studio Wall
10/04/2016
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An old watercolour, painted mainly as I was attracted to the pattern in the stripes, but it has rather made the zebras look as though they are frozen in mid-flight!

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Jenny Harris

I paint mainly in watercolour, often including other media such as pen and ink, pastel or collage. My main interest is in colour and design and most of my work is quite stylised and often illustrative. I enjoy experimenting with acrylic inks, particularly using cling film to create texture, and…

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