ANTHOLOGIA
VOLUME I : June 2025
ROSE ELECTRA HARRIS
Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Rose Electra Harris’s practice finds poetic resonance with John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, particularly in its meditation on the relationship between stillness and vitality, beauty and emotion.
Like the urn, which Keats describes as a “foster-child of Silence and slow Time,” Harris’s work captures fleeting moments of feeling and movement, held in the suspended vibrancy of colour, shape, and form. Her embrace of gesture and scale evokes the sensuous immediacy of the figures and scenes etched into Keats’s urn — forever expressive, yet frozen in time.
Through her intuitive and exploratory process, she creates pictorial spaces where nature and emotion are distilled into compositions that feel both timeless and alive. In this way, her art echoes Keats’s vision of beauty as something both eternal and deeply felt, a silent narrative unfolding through visual poetry.
For the full catalogue of Passion Flower etchings, please contact us.
Other recent works by the artist can be found in the viewing room below.
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