Seamus Heaney - Limited edition prints

SEAMUS HEANEY
This is a limited edition print taken from an oil painting of Seamus Heaney I did back in 2014. I think it's actually one of my best portraits thus far, so I hope I did him justice. 

In this painting of Seamus Heaney I was hoping to evoke something of deep thoughtful spirit of the man, which I think is helped by the blue green somewhat ethereal background. A wonderful poet, and a wonderful face to paint. I can't claim to be expert on his work, but I do remember discovering his poem "Digging" many moons ago and being very taken by the way he compares his father's digging of the earth with his spade, with Heaney's own digging of his imagination with his pen. We all find our own way into a poem and for me once I heard this I couldn't help but automatically substitute the poet's pen for the artist's paint brush, and thus the poem spoke to me of my own struggles to unearth something of value as I go digging for inspiration in paint, which funnily enough is  itself is often nothing more than coloured earth. Anyway, that's what first springs to mind when I think of Heaney. 

Here are the last four lines of Digging from the master as he speaks about his father and grandfather. 

"....

But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it."

Seamus Heaney

Here's a link to the full poem on PoetryOutLoud.org

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PRINT DETAILS

SIZES:

Small Unframed - Image 15x15cm with 3cm border

Small Framed - Image 15x15cm - Frame 33x33cm

Medium Unframed - Image 24x24cm with 3 cm border

Medium Framed - Image 24x24cm - Frame 43x43cm

Large Unframed - Image 34x34cm with 3cm border

No large framing option. 

(See the dropdown menu above to choose for size, price and framing options.)

Framed pic taken from the Medium print option in white.

By the way, if a print, or size option comes up as "SOLD OUT" most likely this just mean that I don't have the print in stock in the studio, rather than the edition being sold out. No problem ordering one in for you though, if you send an email to me at vincentkeeling@gmail.com

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