Eye - 06 April 2012

From the Penny Art Auction to Creation

Lucianna with ‘I could have sworn I felt my spirit soar’, oil on canvas. | Photo: Photo courtesy of Lucianna Whittaker.

The Penny Art Auction

A Quaker artist in Brighton has embarked on an unusual challenge. The Penny Art Auction is a month-long initiative by Lucianna Whittaker, who was inspired by the simplicity testimony to clear her house of possessions – ‘otherwise your things own you’. In the process she had to examine what to do with paintings she had made over the previous five years that were stored in her studio, and realised she had to let go of these too.

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