Pueblo II Loopy-Bird ©
Oil on fine paper
90 cmhigh x 61.5 cm wide
"The contours of a not quite Pueblo-like design with a few more 'Cumberland Sausage' loops added, more filigrees and a robust use of oranges gave me this.
The busby-bush tree holds it all up and the figs were scraped out of the oil with a palette knife."
Hoopie Gold Bird ©
Oil on fine paper
90 cm high x 61.5 cm wide
"I couldn’t resist this title – apologies to the Hoopoe Bird. This batik-like image turned out to have the striking colours that Nigerian women have on their gowns.
The sunflower is very freely done. The Hoopoe Bird was often depicted on Egyptian tomb walls."
Pueblo lll The Norwegian Blue ©
Oil on fine paper
90 h x 61.5 w
"I enjoyed using a Pueblo inspired design and twisting the feathers out of it. Even more fun to me is the inference that the ancient Pueblo people live happily somewhere on a Monty Python cloud with The Choir Invisible, alongside the expired Norwegian Blue.
No surprise then that the tree is the sacred Ished-tree of Heliopolis."