Landscape above Lagoa

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Landscape above Lagoa, April,  oil on card, 17.5 x 15.5 cm  sold

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Distant view of Kensington Palace, framed

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Distant view of Kensington Palace, oil on card, about 10 x 11 cm 
 Framed, NOT FOR SALE

Thanks to Lise for sending me this photo.

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Above 43rd St., Queens, N.Y., looking down, framed

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Above 43rd St., Queens, N.Y., looking down, oil on card, 12 x 12 cm  Available

Framed and ready for submission to the Royal Academy Selection Panel.

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Church near the junction for Rio Negrinho, framed

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Church near the junction for Rio Negrinho

 oil on card, 12 x14.5 cm   Framed  SOLD

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Monument, Central Square, Trujullo

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Rather deco styled monument in central Trujillo, commemorating the Peruvian war of independence, erected in 1929. The sculptures owe something to Michealangelo and perhaps Arno Breker.

This isn't Fascist sculpture- if we define Fascist sculpture by its political objectives. But it has some of what my old tutor Michael Bury used to describe as its "pea-braned" qualities.

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Dancer and Unicorn

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Dancer and Unicorn

Tableau: it might be nice to suggest simple narratives using these toys.

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Four cardboard toys: knight, emu, unicorn and horse

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 Knight-Errant

 Emu, perhaps.

Unicorn

Horse (detail of neck and head)

Some questions

At what point is a representation so abstracted that it ceases to convey the thing it purports to? Using only cocktail sticks and corrugated card, and limiting oneself to glue to join elements, what can one come up with? 

Would it be a good idea to paint the pieces? Or would that be to take them away from that playful abstracted area where the mind is teased into the area of mere imitation?

They are not refined. Does that matter? Is it nice to see how simply they are constructed?

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