Object Description
Original tondo painting by artist Chloë Holt RCA FRSA. One of the youngest artists ever to be elected a member of the RCA. Winner of the 2012 Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize, Chloe also, in 2010 won the International Lorenzo il Magnifico prize by the Florence Biennale for works on paper.
Oil and mixed media on board in antique Georgian tondo gilded frame with original glass.
Sorrento lemon in dappled spring light. “Vedrò con mio diletto” (- “I will see with delight”)
“As Helena Attlee writes, “the lemon is a fruit shaped by care” — something cultivated rather than found, carrying with it a sense of patience, attention and distance.
In painting, it holds that same tension. It’s delicious fragrance and taste – sharpness and sweetness set against one another.
Here it remains whole. Gilded leaves catch and return the dappled light, contained within a small Georgian round frame — something held and treasured.” – Chloë Holt