Imperial Mammoth strikes again!
Check out my daughter and son in law Laura and Leonard Jackson's amazing new song "Little Earthquakes" https://soundcloud.com/imperial-mammoth/little-earthquakes-2...
07 May, 2014
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Rupert Bear in Space
One usually associates Rupert Bear with Nutwood, but in this marvelous images from a 1960's annual, here are his pals, pigs, badgers et all, gliding across the surface of a new planet as if they belonged there. And Rupert himself, of course, supervises from his personal UFO. Who else Albert Bestall and his heirs could have made space seem ...
12 March, 2014
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Brocks Fireworks Poster
This poster for Brock’s fireworks perfectly conjours up for me the cosy world of my 1950’s northern England childhood. We never actually had a bonfire in our back garden, which was a bit small for that, but we did let fireworks off there, and the Big Bonfire was just across the park from our house. For weeks anticipation grew as we watched the park keepers add autumn leaves, fallen branches, old bedframes, decrepit sofas and all sorts of wonderfully inflammable things to the growing pyramid. Topped of course, by Guy...
11 March, 2014
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Pop Culture
Some of the images that find their way into my sculptures, which I’ll upload from time to time as I come across them …...
08 March, 2014
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