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Bog Box 1103
Acrylic, ink and chalk on burnt Scottish oak. Pinned with reclaimed copper rivets and nails. Ring Marks inspired by the Kilmartin area of Scotland. These boxes evoke “the lost”, buried by ancients 3000 years ago. A place for safe keeping and new finds ! 200 x 100 x 100mm
I've always had a fascination for indigenous art and so called primitive art. Since working in archaeology and timber I always wondered if the wood was painted in the houses, henges and gathering sites here in Scotland. This is just a response to it all. These wood tablets, bark sheets, stag oak branches and bog oak pieces are all painted on offcuts from the workshop - ash, elm, oak, sycamore - whatever is lying around. All painted and carved tablets are made from Scottish hardwoods. They are storylines in themselves, partly mine, partly the viewer. Colourful, non descriptive, ancestoral messages held on wood from a primitive place.