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Patricia Paolozzi Cain's 'When You're Falling, Dive' in a white frame, mounted on a white wall
Patricia Paolozzi Cain's 'When You Are Falling, Dive' is a diptych composed of two drawings of reed filled pond reflecting a canopy of trees. The colours are black and white with a hint of ochre.

When You're Falling, Dive by Patricia Paolozzi Cain

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Title: When You're Falling, Dive (Diptych)
Artist: Patricia Paolozzi Cain
Medium: Pastel and coloured pencil (framed)
Size: 122 cm x  140 cm

Patricia Paolozzi Cain (b. 1963) is a multi-award-winning artist living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has a PhD in the Practice of Drawing from Glasgow School of Art. She won both the Threadneedle and Aspect Prizes in 2010, and has since received noteworthy awards from the Royal Watercolour Society, the Pastel Society, the Royal Scottish Academy and Arte Laguna in Venice. 

Paolozzi Cain's meditative process of drawing and painting - in which she visualises the interplay between the external world and the internal mind - is a discernible reflection of John Berger's strong beliefs in slowing down and deliberately paying attention to the world around us. Conveying a reedy pond that reflects a dense canopy of trees, 'When You're Falling, Dive' elicits a place where you might happen to find a heron wading through the reeds or nesting in the trees. But the artist's careful process of omitting and erasing, abstracts the picture, giving way to ambiguity and the obscure.