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The Isolation Drawings (#3). For this drawing I’ve recreated one of the patent papers for the Drinker Respirator, which was one of the first ventilators, and was more commonly known as the ‘iron lung.’ An epidemic of polio in the 1920s motivated a team from Harvard (Drinker, Shaw and Wilson) to come up with a viable solution to assist the breathing of patients whose lung muscles were paralysed. Whilst to us this looks like a rather Heath Robinson contraption or a medieval torture device, it was an advance that saved thousands and thousands of lives. Thankfully, of course, we now have a vaccine for polio, but as we are all very aware, the legacy of this invention lives on. #ventilator #respirator #drinkerrespirator #harvard #polio #epidemics #epidemic #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine #drawing #stayhome #breathing #covid_19 #isolation #theisolationdrawings #isolationdrawings #coronavirus #contained #containment #corona #nightingale #pencildrawing #inventions #drawingproject #artistinisolation #pencilonpaper #recovery #ironlung

The Isolation Drawings (#2). My daughter’s first ballet shoes - contained. Some of these drawings will be of objects that are in my house (such as in this and the previous drawing); others will be more abstract but connected to the context and experience of isolation. I’ll soon be writing about this project over at the Carington Press, so keep an eye on my stories if you’d like to know when that’s out. #isolation #theisolationdrawings #stayhome #socialdistancing #covid19uk #shield #shielding #corona #coronavirus #drawing #drawingproject #balletshoes #contained #containment #quiet #space #pencildrawing #pencil #graphitedrawing #graphite #pencilonpaper #originalart #artistinisolation

I’ve been told to ‘shield’ for at least the next 12 weeks (and everyone else in the UK is at home for the next 3 weeks anyway) so, I’m making a drawing project called The Isolation Drawings. This is the first drawing and I’ll be posting the others I make in the coming days/weeks/months. It’s a way of recording this time in my life but also of placing this ‘interior’ experience in the ‘exterior’ context of the wider world. One day at a time... #stayhome #theisolationdrawings #drawingproject #drawing #corona #coronavirus #covid #covid19uk #isolation #lockdown #shielding #athome #home #socialdistancing #onedayatatime #drawdrawdraw #draweveryday #sketching #studio #workingfromhome #virus #bravenewworld #alone #drawingprojects #pencildrawing #sketchbook

I am making these paintings available through the #artistsupportpledge which has been started by @matthewburrowsstudio . In common with many other full-time artists, the work that I rely on to sustain myself has very suddenly disappeared. Galleries have closed, teaching has been suspended indefinitely, and other events cancelled or postponed until next year. The concept behind the Artist Support Pledge is simple: artists make available work they are prepared to sell for less than £200. When each artist reaches £1000 of sales through the initiative, they buy a work from another artist participating in the scheme. This way, we all help support each other. It’s a brilliantly entrepreneurial but also community-minded idea. I am making these three paintings available through this pledge. They are all from my Four Quartets project, measure 20x20cm each and are all acrylic on board. I am selling them for £125 each (unframed). If there is one you’d like to purchase, please message me on here or email me at annabelcarington@gmail.com and let me know if you’d like ‘The Dry Salvages,’ ‘Home is where we start from,’ or ‘One has only learnt to get the better of words for the thing one no longer has to say’ (this is the order in which they appear on the post). I’ll also be making entomology drawings and paintings available over on my @100moths page. Thanks for your support. #fourquartets #tseliot #eliot #originalart #supportlivingartists #buyart #artforyourhome #originalpainting #acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #abstractlandscape #thedrysalvages #littlegidding #eastcoker #burntnorton #poetry #artandpoetry #faber #faberandfaber #wordsandpictures #homeiswherewestartfrom #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #britishcontemporaryart

‘A haul that will not bear examination.’ The next work in my series on T.S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets.’ This one is the fifth one in ‘The Dry Salvages’ section of the project. I have images in my head for almost all of the rest of the paintings now. Just need to paint them! #eliot #tseliot #wordsandpictures #thedrysalvages #fourquartets #poetry #modernism #faber #faberandfaber #literature #artanspoetry #originalpainting #originalart #smallworks #artseries #landscapepainting #abstractlandscapes #instaart #contemporaryart #modernbritishart #atmosphericlandscape #modernart #britishcontemporaryart

The latest painting in my series of works on T.S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets.’ This is the fourth painting in the ‘The Dry Salvages’ section and it’s called ‘There is no end, but addition.’ #tseliot #eliot #thedrysalvages #fourquartets #originalart #originalpainting #painting #wordsandpictures #poetry #faber #faberandfaber #artandliterature #art #landscape #landscapepainting #contemporarypainting #modernbritishart #britishartists #supportlivingartists #contemporarybritishpainting #spreadart

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