Sleeping Dragons
DESCRIPTION
'Sleeping Dragons (War of the Worlds)' is available in the following formats:
A5 Greetings Card
A4 Unframed/Framed Print
Limited Edition. Epson archival pigment print on German Etching 310gsm. Signed by the artist.
Original. For the discerning collector of New Contemporary Art. With signed Certificate of Authenticity.
PRODUCTION
The open prints are done at the Southside Rehabilitation Association (SRA) Copyshop, a local charity rehabilitating adults recovering from mental health issues into the workplace. Every sale of a card or print therefore benefits SRA.
The limited edition/giclee prints are from Chris Clack's Dulwich Printing Services, a well-established local fine art printer that I have worked with for the past 10 years.
SHIPPING FOR FRAMES & MOUNTS IN EU
If you're interested in purchasing a mounted or framed reproduction of my artwork, kindly reach out to me directly. Please provide the specific details of the artwork you desire, specify whether you prefer a framed or mounted version, and include your shipping information, including your home address.
Sleeping Dragons (War of the Worlds), 2022
There's so much in here it's hard to know where to begin. Dragons sleeping for so long the trees have grown right through them. Cthulhu being chopped into seafood by a raging Viking. Is it Thor and the Serpent of the end of time? Are we at RAGNAROK? Maybe I should've called it that? Children playing with masks made into kites. Used condoms as tree decorations. Leafless trees giving out love. Converting Co2 into O2?
Thrown away empty coke cans. Humans that carry on littering the planet but the planet carries on regardless as the deer, the rabbit and the hob look on.
Time's almost out for the humans: the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. Sky warriors advance – a Celtic interpretation of Armageddon and Tolkien’s Return of the King while the eagle of justice that we first met in ‘Strange Days’ awaits as a black water fall plummets from the pages of the Bible: judgement?
The Tripods, but not the tripods of H G Well’s ‘The War of the Worlds’, made more famous by the film starring Tom Cruise, but the Tripods of John Christopher – I read ‘The White Mountains’ and the second and third books in his trilogy in my first year of secondary school and loved it. I reread it recently and loved it as much. So they make an appearance.
To the right of the guitar is an abbey or monastery. This image is drawn from a sketch I made inside the church of ‘Saint Jean’ in Caen, the Norman city of my wife’s childhood. Two monks. Conversing. About what I wonder? Pacman too and four spacecraft from my childhood: the Liberator of Blake's Seven; the X-Fighter of Star Wars, the Eagle of Space 1999 and The Enterprise of Star Trek. I watched them all with my siblings throughout the 1970’s and 80’s and was transported to a ‘Galaxy Far, Far Away’ and ‘Strange, New Worlds’ as were so many others.
I love this piece.
Even though I drew it over several months, surely giving me plenty of time to absorb all I was putting down onto the paper, I'm still discovering things I hadn't noticed before. As I still do with artworks drawn over 30 years ago!
The day I grow tired of drawing will be the day I grow tired of living.