Emma Haworth ~ Human Seasons

EMMA

HAWORTH HUMAN SEASONS

Spring Park Cherry Blossom oil on canvas 130 x 140 cm 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in

HUMAN SEASONS

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.

He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

- John Keats

Summer Evening, 2020 oil on canvas 85 x 95 cm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

Autumn Woods, 2020 oil on canvas 130 x140 cm 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in

Winter Woodland, 2020 oil on canvas 130 x 140 cm 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in

Park People, 2020 oill on canvas 130 x 120 cm 51 1/8 x 47 1/4 in

The park is Emma Haworth's great motif and theme: an essential part of life and a place where the social and the natural worlds can meet, even in the heart of the city. And its importance has only increased in recent times, with the constraints of Lockdown and Social Isolation.

Cherry Blossom/ Sakura, 2020 oill on canvas 85x95 cm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

- ee cummings

i carry you in my heart, 2020 oil on canvas 85 x 95 cm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

Deepest Secret, 2020 (detail) oil on canvas 130 x 140cm 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in

Cherry Blossom/Sakura, 2020 oil on canvas 85 x 95 cm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

Emma Haworth's work has received wide critical recognition and acclaim. In 2010 she won First Prize in the National Open Art Competition, as well as The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Haworth's work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society Award.

Faith, Hope and Love, Spitalfields, 2020 (detail) oil on canvas 130 x 120 cm 51 1/8 x 47 1/4 in

THE OAK Live thy Life, Young and old, Like yon oak, Bright in spring, Living gold; Summer-rich Then; and then Autumn-changed Soberer-hued Gold again.

All his leaves Fall’n at length, Look, he stands, Trunk and bough Naked strength.

- Alfred Tennyson

The Oak: Summer, 2020, oil on canvas 130 x 140 cm 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in

The Sun Sets and The Sun Rises (summer), 2020 oil on canvas 140 x 130 cm 55 1/8 x 51 1/8 in

The Meeting: Summer Wood, 2020 oil on canvas 85 x 95 cmm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

The Rose Garden, 2020 (detail) oil on canvas 85 x 95 cm 33 1/2 x 37 3/8 in

The Sun Sets and The Sun Rises (winter), 2020 oil on canvas 140 x 120 cm 55 1/8 in x 47 1/4

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.�

- J. R. R. Tolkien

The deepest roots are not reached by the frost, 2020 oil on canvas 130 x 120 cm 51 1/8 x 47 1/4 in

'I wanted to look at the seasons of life particularly using the park as the setting for my paintings.

Especially during this year the park has been a place for people to meet friends, exercise, work, play and escape. I found in the book of Ecclesiastes an interesting passage about how there is " a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing...".'

Emma Haworth, 2020

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Photography by Alexander Fox