Summer Evening By Jamie Poole (JOHN CLARE POEM)
Summer Evening Fotheringhay By Jamie Poole
based on the poem by Northamptonshire Artist John Clare (1793-1864) called 'Summer Evening'.
Jamie has made this painting after canoeing down the River Nene past the old village of Fotheringhay. This 'painting' was made using the printed words of the poem with his collage technique known as 'text painting'. Words were cut, torn and layered to evoke the beauty of the wildlife and countryside surrounding his home in the United Kingdom.
Below is the poem this card is based on. You can even read parts of the poems in the card.
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The frog half fearful jumps across the path,
And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve
Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath;
My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive,
Till past, and then the cricket sings more strong,
And grasshoppers in merry moods still wear
The short night weary with their fretting song.
Up from behind the molehill jumps the hare,
Cheat of his chosen bed, and from the bank
The yellowhammer flutters in short fears
From off its nest hid in the grasses rank,
And drops again when no more noise it hears.
Thus nature's human link and endless thrall,
Proud man, still seems the enemy of all.
John Clare