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With a combination of both drawing and painting Eileen Curran Chamberlain searches out equivalent marks, tones and colours that express the visual and joyful sensation of the subject matter. ‘A major

The reference material for this artwork is an old photograph of a 19th-century racing yacht. It is such a special image that I decided to try to recreate it in charcoal. In doing so, I realised that i