Art in “Difficult Times”

Emma Cownie
7 min readOct 11, 2020

How two artists responded to “Difficult Times”

This is about two very different artists who lived on different sides of the world almost 80 years apart. Although their lives and times were very different their response to difficult times, although superficially seemingly very different, have a lot in common.

The first artist is called is Evelyn Dunbar. I fell in love with this painting of hers…

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Emma Cownie

Landscape painter. Inspired by light and colour. Living in Derry & Donegal. www.emmafcownie.com