FLAG were delighted to present artist Verity Clark with her £500 Visitors' Choice Award. This award is funded solely by Flag members.
Verity's picture, Ophelia, is soft pastels on paper and is a portrait of her daughter. It's one of a small series on a similar theme, based on Millais' Ophelia. (Ophelia is a character in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. She is driven mad when her father, Polonius, is murdered by her lover, Hamlet. She dies while still very young, suffering from grief and madness. The events shown in Millais's Ophelia are not actually seen on stage).
The water shown in the picture is of a small stream running through their farm - it has Cranford Mill just a little upstream.
Verity often makes her own costumes but the one depicted is a vintage Laura Ashley in dark green, chosen to contrast with the yellows in the water.
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| Ophelia by Verity Clark, reproduced here with her kind permission |
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