A Thoughtful Sphinx sold up and down the country

up and down the country

He has led me to question what it is to paint

as such an important jewel must be recognizable to some family historian somewhere and so unlocking the sitter’s identity

but we have agreed for this artwork to go out on loan to a public exhibition from July - November 2022

A Thoughtful Sphinx sold up and down the countryIn our Cecil Court Gallery Mixed Earthenware clays decorated with slips and oxides. Multiple firings including smoke firings. Burnished with wax. This chap, with his faintly Etruscan style masked head, that can be turned to any direction, seems to be lost in thought but who knows what a ceramic sphinx thinks?