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Cornelia O’Donovan

Bird in the Tree
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Bird in the Tree

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
Bird on a Cage

Bird on a Cage

oil on canvas
120 x 100cm
£3500
Birds under the Sun
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Birds under the Sun

oil on canvas
77 x 77cm
Black Spot Pony

Black Spot Pony

oil on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1800
Blue and Red Bird

Blue and Red Bird

oil & oil stick on paper
26 x 21cm
£450
Blue Tit and Moth

Blue Tit and Moth

oil on canvas
70 x 70cm
£1900
Brand New Coat
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Brand New Coat

oil on canvas
100 x 100cm
Corn Yellow

Corn Yellow

oil & oil stick on paper
41 x 31cm
£625
Green, Green, Red, Pink
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Green, Green, Red, Pink

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
In the Garden

In the Garden

oil on canvas
77 x 77cm
£1995
Little Birds Nest

Little Birds Nest

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
£1700
Magpies
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Magpies

oil on canvas
80 x 80cm
Making Nests
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Making Nests

oil on canvas
60 x 60cm
Moonshine
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Moonshine

oil on canvas
80 x 100cm
On The Table
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On The Table

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
Orange Marmalade

Orange Marmalade

oil & oil stick on paper
41 x 31cm
£625
Pink and Blue Stripy

Pink and Blue Stripy

oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
£3800
Pinky Ponk
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Pinky Ponk

oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
Prussian Blue

Prussian Blue

oil & oil stick on paper
41 x 31cm
£625
Red and Blue Play Time

Red and Blue Play Time

oil & oil stick on paper
26 x 21cm
£450
Red Squirrel
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Red Squirrel

oil on canvas
60 x 60cm
Sap Green
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Sap Green

oil on canvas
70 x 70cm
Shooting Star

Shooting Star

oil on canvas
76 x 76cm
£1995
Sitting at the Table

Sitting at the Table

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
£1700
Small Face in the Garden

Small Face in the Garden

oil & oil stick on paper
21 x 26cm
£450
Small Faces

Small Faces

oil & oil stick on paper
21 x 26cm
£450
Spotted Vase

Spotted Vase

oil on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1800
Spring Things

Spring Things

oil on canvas
120 x 100cm
£3500
Tauro
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Tauro

oil on canvas
70 x 70cm
The Yellow Vase

The Yellow Vase

oil on canvas
100 x 76cm
£2800
These Fishes

These Fishes

oil on canvas
76 x 76cm
£1995
Tree of Life

Tree of Life

oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
£1700
Whistling Bird

Whistling Bird

oil & oil stick on paper
41 x 31cm
£625
Yellow, Green

Yellow, Green

oil on canvas
80 x 80xm
£1995

a photograph of the artist Cornelia O'Donovan painting in her studio | Cornwall Contemporary“When I was a child, my sister and I would spend days making paper cardboard houses, sometimes villages – using toothpaste lids to make light bulbs, scraps of fabric for curtains, making interior worlds.

That feeling never left me and still today I work with the idea of making something from nothing. It is fascinating, entirely insular and personal, but speaks of today and time and is a female voice. The first drawings and scribbles are stiff, then after I am relaxed enough, they begin to be playful. I work without judging or editing and it seems to pour out. I find the process of setting up, layering colour down, cutting up and arranging shapes totally absorbing.

The time I spend working is a complete other world, a time to reflect and map out dreams, nightmares, my fears and obsessions. The images sometimes repeat themselves, playing out different roles and interpreting the same meaning again and again – images from the stories I collect, my own and other people’s lives, from film, paintings, poems and myths.”

Cornelia O’Donovan was born in 1981 and trained at the Royal College of Art in London. Her paintings which are inspired by folklore and poetry have been exhibited widely and have also been used for exclusive collections of ceramics, fabrics and clothing for Anthropologie which have been on display throughout their stores in the UK and USA .

“Once she picks up a paintbrush, Cornelia is in a different world, layering colours and cutting and arranging shapes, to create flat paintings, stripped of all perspective and realism, which retells tales native to the British Isles. We were so taken with her work that we wanted a little piece of it for our own homes. We were delighted when she proposed a collection of ceramics for us that combines her love of colour, shape and the eccentricities of life with an everyday object.” Anthropologie

Her paintings are in private collections around the world.

Cornwall Contemporary

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