Painting reveals art’s imitation of real life

THE dramatic crash of the US Airways plane into the Hudson River last week appears to be depicted in a new painting by renowned artist Pauline Bewick which was created last December, weeks before the event.

“It’s just coincidence,” the artist said yesterday.

In a series of “currency and collapse” paintings focused on New York, Ms Bewick said she herself was taken aback by the apparent correlation between last week’s airplane drama and one of her three new paintings.