Sherree Valentine Daines | Carefree Summer's Day Money Man Stik Stamp

Stik Stamp

Sparrow's felt technique gives everyday objects the weight of artworks — the familiar made strange by the labour of the making

the materials carrying the history of their sources even as they are transformed by combination and addition

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Sherree Valentine Daines | Carefree Summer's Day Money Man Stik StampSherree Valentine Daines (b. 1959) Carefree Summer's Day Hand embellished canvas Carefree Summer's Day is Valentine Daines at her most directly celebratory a painting about the specific quality of a summer day when nothing is required of you. Her impressionist technique is perfectly suited to this subject: the paint itself has the lightness and warmth of the day it describes. The hand embellished canvas format ensures each impression carries her