The artist’s brushes and palette were employed to glorify the light and the colours of the landscape and to record most of the important monuments. Famagusta at night features the silhouettes of the Latin Cathedral of St Nicholas (Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque) and Church of St George of the Greeks, with only some palm trees in between the two monuments. It gives the feeling of an abandoned town in a deep sleep in time. This is an almost haunting picture of the ancient ruins. The successful use of shades of grey and dark mauve attests to the clear moonlit nights of Cyprus and achieves the correct effect.
John Codrington was born in England in 1898. He had a career as a British Army officer, but his true passions were gardens and watercolour paintings, which he never exhibited, thus leaving nearly 4.000 pictures to his nephew when he died.
PNT-00106 > John Codrington (1898-1991), Famagusta, Watercolour, 25x35 cm, ca. 1925
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