Follow the Magic Shadow
2026
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Artist's Commentary
“There's something about sunlight coming through an old window that I've always found rather magical. It can completely transform an ordinary room, particularly when the shadows fall across the walls and furniture in unexpected ways.
In Follow the Magic Shadow, I wanted to play with that idea. The carved wooden shutter looks as though it belongs in a Renaissance building, perhaps somewhere in Venice, yet the young woman seems to have stepped straight out of the 1960s. I rather like that contradiction, as though two different periods in history have somehow come together in the same room.
The light was especially important to me in this painting. I wanted it to feel warm and inviting, but with just enough mystery to make you wonder what might lie beyond the window.
There's no particular story you have to follow. I prefer to leave that to the imagination of whoever happens to be looking at it.”
— Ramsay Allan