The Resurrection Of Napoleon Bonaparte by Mark Sheeky

G871A The Resurrection Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Oil on canvas panel
Nov 2015 to Aug 2016, 450x320 mm

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About this painting
A painting of The White Nancy in Bollington, a famous Cheshire monument, erected to commemorate the Napoleonic wars.

Begun at the dawn of 2016 and a momentous political year for Britain as the country voted to leave the European Union, and as France, assaulted by attacks by Middle-Eastern extremists, decided to increase its overseas engagements. It was was though some Napoleon had been resurrected.

Yet, those movements could almost be incidental: I had been asked to paint The White Nancy, and while doing so felt the compulsion to put Napoleon in the sky in a joyous mood rather than a tempestuous one. Fate, then, must have lent a welcome hand.

The storm on the horizon could be a distant battle, or something coming, some dawn, a spark of change, a rush of a new fate, that must be charged into with joy, to the sounds of Beethoven's Eroica.

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