Oil Lamp

This still life painting features a small oil lamp I had found at a market. The warm yellows of the glass and the dull metal of the base were my favourite areas to paint. The geometric foreground add a contemporary feel to the antique subject matter.

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Jemma Cakebread is a Melbourne based artist currently working with oil painting and textiles. She drew on everything from books to walls as a kid and kept it up to adulthood, eventually completing further education in the arts against careers advice at highschool. She listens to true crime podcasts while she paints, dislikes going to her own exhibition openings and takes terrible care of her paintbrushes.