These drawings are a collection of ritual objects, their basis in Finnish shamanism and nature worship, exploring the interconnectedness of humans, animals and the forest, and cycles of life and death.
This work is based on a rough sketch, a casual doodle, discarded at The Yellow House by artist Martin Sharp in 1971 and found by me when putting out the rubbish.
Love Lifes is a series of still life paintings depicting domestic and hand made objects arranged by couples left alone on play dates in Yvette Coppersmith’s studio…
Roy supplemented his own images by purchasing 35mm slides of more monuments and the outsides of historic buildings, apparently disinterested in anything that might be found inside them, such as people, food or art.