A Pilgrim Flask
More of an archeological object, a 5th. century pilgrim flask found near St Menas in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Topless Temptation
A further study of drift wood, and experimenting with internal lighting
History Repeats Itself
A box collage featuring George Grosz’s “Street Scene Berlin 1928” and the Guardian’s protests against corporate greed, 2011.
“Alone at Last”
Eve alone at last in the Garden of Eden, after Richard Dadd, an eccentric Victorian painter who was detained in a mental hospital after killing his father. He specialised in painting dense fairie paintings, see “The Master Fellers Master-Stroke” 1855 in the Tate Gallery. The Queen pop group had a song with the same title, referencing Dadd.
“Running Free in Paradise”
Detail
“Clap the net over the butterfly of the moment”, Vita Sackville -West.
My favourite beach in Penang, Malaysia, and only accessible by boat or a two hour walk through the rattan infested jungle.
“A Banker seeking Redemption”
Made from drift wood found around Battersea Bridge in London.
“All wrapped up warm”. Our wrapped house on Oakfield Street in the style of Christo and his wife Jean-Claude.
When Csar met Warhol
Both artists were interested in everyday objects. The French artist Csar compressed them, the American Warhol painted them.
“Followers of Lilith”
“Eggshells and a Fern”
“It just came out of my mouth one millisecond before my brain told it not to”
Buttons from Mothers Button Box
Stamps waiting!
“Exploring”
Drift wood with map.
Hope
“Getting to the Top”
Champagne wires and early skyscrapers in New York.
“It is perfectly safe”
With dried toadstools, including Fly Agaric, and Birch bark from Wimbledon Common.
Detail
“In the Hazel Wood”
With a mirror behind.
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| “A Cabinet of Curiosities” A collection of natural and man made objects found on my travels. Based on a eighteenth century “wunderkammer” it acts as a sort of memory box. |
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“Art is Work, Selling it is Art”
Illustrated with “Abstract Painting” by Ad Reinhardt, 1963. in MoMA
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| “The Three Graces”
From the Woman Magazine published in 1959 |
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“Nostalgia”
A Schwitters style collage of advertisements from Woman magazine published in 1959.
The Box Art, each priced at £150, are available from;
The Gallery on Park Walk
5 Park Walk
London
SW10 OAJ
jrsdemare@gmail.com
All the boxes are 25 cms. square