Out of Arcadia into Dystopian Efficiency
A man with a briefcase is leaving a Claudian landscape through a gate of drift wood fragments found on the Thames by Battersea Bridge.
Homage to Rene Magritte
A model aeroplane coming out of a dolls house’s fireplace, referencing Magritte’s famous painting of a train coming out of a fireplace; “La Duree Poignardee”. There is a reproduction of the painting on the mantlepiece.
Two Men in a Bleak Landscape
Somewhat in the style of Anselm Kiefer two men are at the edge of a forest of painted birch twigs and rusting fence. Is it a memory of a border to Eastern Europe?
The Lorelie
A study of the textures of sun bleached drift wood from the Pett Levels beach in East Sussex, dedicated to Heinrich Heine’s “Die Lore-Ley”. Detail below.
Are You Pleased to See Me ?
Two whelk shell fragments from the beach in Knokke Zoute, Belgium. Please note, this is a smaller box.
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Under the Tansy Trees
A mirrored box with small figures and dried Tansy flowers, memories of umbrella pines.
When Tracey met Grayson
A boxed collage based on a Tracey Emin’s drawing “See how They Grow” with sculptures from a vase by Grayson Perry.
Lost in a Forest of Grasses
Trees of dried grasses and sedges with a mirrored background and a couple, lost.
A Wounded Sherd
A Greco-Roman period sherd found in Fayoum district of Egypt.
A Holiday
A second version of this title; with a dried palm flower, flint forms and threatening clouds of bills and bad news.
Archeology?
Squashed cans and bottle tops from the streets of Cairo, how long before rubbish is promoted to archeological status?
Specimens
Three found bones in inverted test tubes, after the artist Mark Dion. A modernistic version of the Cabinet of Curiosities.
The unknown tightrope walker
More of an experiment with framing and collaging old prints, the three figures are watching the tightrope walker above them, who is on a wire.
Victorian Blue and White Ware
Attractive sherds of pottery collected from the foreshore of the River Thames.
Moonlight over Plettenberg Bay
A mirrored memory box of beach combing along Plettenberg Bay in South Africa; with limpet shell towers, a sand dollar moon and dried flower from the local fynbos.
I Do Like a Good Shrine
A couple discussing a shrine to a Cambodian buddha, the bones for the shrine are from the Thames foreshore.