#midsummer night

(Photo: d.)

Celebrated midsummer with a late night nature walk.

'Midsummer Night' by Kinuko Y Craft

One of these stones is from the Ozarks and one is from the Oachitas, the two ancient mountain sentinels on either side of our valley—for me that is even more protection and strength tied up in the stones.

Midsummer Night or Iris is a study in iridescence, the effect of light the artist loved best. He loved to experiment with prisms to catch the effect of seeing colored light, and used such effects in this series of pictures. His daughter, Elaine, wrote, ‘My father was always fascinated by colour-iridescence. He would study the prismatic range in the beveled mirrors of candelabra; and if we children found in the big garden a bit of old glass, oxidized by age and weather, we would proudly take it to him, to add to his collection a box which lay open on a table beside his easel (Quoted in J. Sellars, ed., Atkinson Grimshaw. Painter of Moonlight, exh. cat., Harrogate, Mercer Art Gallery, 2011, p. 64).

Gouache , 100 x 70 cm.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Midsummer Night or Iris (1876) Source