Title: Study for "Angel of Death From the Air"

Year: 2024

Media: Ink , charcoal and conté crayon

Size: 42 x 29.7 x 2 cm

About the work: Having experienced the Blitz on Plymouth  during WW2 as a child I have thought a great deal  about Aerial Warfare  throughout  my adult life  and continue to be affected by the murderous  obscenity  of the  indisriminate bombing of Civilians .    Combined  with what is now happening in Gaza   my views  have hardened. This is what this work is about.

Bio: Born in1936 I started off my career  first as a painter  and printmaker  and became  a so called "Abstract" sculptor but after moving away  from the UK in the early 1970s my work became  more  cleary figurative.  This  was triggered  by  my  being mixed up  in a student  riot  in the Berkeley Campus UC against Nixon expanding the Vietnam War .Someone had to do a sculpture about Vietnam and i realised it was going to be me.    I discovered that it wasn't the US or the French that were  originally responsible for this ugly war but that it had been started by the British in 1945 - look it up !    So my views on the horror ,pornography and stupidity of war widened and has been a subject of my work ever since.