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JOHFRAWORKS pg20
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ESEDRA PHOENIX
FOUNTAIN 1982
1987
The years of Maturity were also marked by a THE RECONCILIATION OF TITANIA AND OBERON
(1994)
whole series of Fountain paintings. Finally, the (De verzoening tussen Titania en Oberon)
fountains of Rome which he had first sketched with
Diana in their travels through Italy forty years ago
explode in abundance. What fascinated the artist Similarly, the rich verdure of vine and vegetation
above all was the play of water through air and light invades almost all of his works from this period. A
and over stone. The element of water in all its fluid fine example, aside from the earlier ones of Pan or
forms has become a painterly challenge, and he the Self Portrait as a Faun, is The Reconciliation of
renders its movement with absolute mastery. Titania and Oberon (1994). This is the apex of a
But the other elements are not forgotten. His whole series of Elf paintings, which examines the
Phoenix (1982) is more than just a symbolic picture gnomes, fairies, and woodsprites in their own
of death and rebirth - the phoenix which immolates element. The mushrooms, ferns, ivy and rocks are
itself in the fire and arises reborn from the ashes. all rendered with loving attention to the marvellous
The notebooks reveal the painstaking efforts which shapes and patterns which emerge from the earth.
Johfra took to render in paint the glowing,
undulating movement of fire.
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