A Art de Ana Maria Plant

Parte 9 – ‘Red White & Blue’

 

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Smith & Son’
• 75x50 cm

 

“Ana Maria’s work has been characterized in the past by a predominance of Brazilian themes. Her pictures feature a variety of aspects of her native country, ranging from its wild life and indigenous cultures to its colonial architecture and the religious manifestations which have emerged from its racial and cultural melting pot. Now living in London, Ana Maria takes advantage of a fresh source of inspiration, by producing a series of paintings with local themes.”

 

André Carvalho

 

• Acrylic on board.
• ‘Forget Me Not’.
• 170x110 cm.

 

• Acrylic on canvas
• ‘The Troubadours’
• 122x82 cm,

 

• Acrylic on canvas
• ‘Off to School’
• 130x100 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Two’s Company’
• 87x115 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Three is not a Crowd’
• 78x123 cm

 

• Acrylic on Canvas
• ‘Pennies from Heaven’.
• 100x120 cm

 

• Acrylic on Canvas
• ‘Singing in the Rain’
• 100x120 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Marmite & Marmalade’
• 75x75 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Vicky & Berty’.
• 75x75 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Catch Me If You Can’
• 87x123 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Poppy Appeal’
• 100x123 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Just My Cup of Tea’
• 120x90 cm

 

• Acrylic on board
• ‘Just My Cup of Tea’
• 120x90 cm

 

When I came to live in London, it was like stepping into a period movie, full of history and traditions. The British Isles had a reingning queen, with a crown full of diamonds, who travelled through the town in a golden carriage drawn by six white horses. She lived in a sumptious palace, guarded by beautifully uniformed soldiers, and had many castles where she stayed when she pleased. I thought it was a bit like a fairy tale. But the contrasts didn’t stop there.

The UK is geographically located in a very different kind of latitude from Brazil, the country I hail from. It’s got snow in the winter, apple trees in the gardens where squirrels go up and down looking for nuts, foxes with bushy brushes darting across the streets, jet black ravens that gather in large numbers on the grassy expanses of parks, nights that get very long and very short...

And what about all the beautiful iconic red things we come across as we walk the streets of London? The pillar boxes, the phone booths, the double-decker buses, the ubiquitous bricks, the circle of the underground logo, the red jacket worn by the Coldstream Guard outside Buckingham Palace, the red cross of Saint George on the Union Jack.

It was hard not to be inspired by all these defining elements of British life. They became the lovely raw material of my thematic exhibition and its companion: the children’s book I have co-authored with my husband, Tim Plant. It6 contains texts and illustrations covering not only the inanimate objects that ornament and identify the nation, but also the customs of its people and the people themselves, in all their dazzling variety, which attests to a time which now belongs to history. A past when the sun never set in the British Empire. When I look around me, I can’t help noticing the world seems to have conquered this place.

 

• Acrylic on canvas
• ‘The Birthday Party’
• 121x91cm

 

• Acrylic on board.
• Halloween.
• 120x91 cm

 

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