Tisssiphone

Title: Tisssiphone
Medium: Thee colour lithograph
Size: 48 x 60.5 cm
Edition size: 35

"Tisiphone. She  is one of the mythological Greek Furies, and known as the Avenger of Murder. A story has it that, in spite of her appellation, she killed a lover who spurned her by throwing a snake from her coiffure at him, and he died from the venom. I enjoy using the Furies as subject matter because of their female power and the opportunity to combine classically drawn features with serpentine forms. In this work I wanted to use the language of pure drawing in a visual dialogue with the idiomatic, sgraffiti - like snake head." Judith Mason

Judith Mason Print Archive