It's All About The Fun of The Chase, Bob, 2006

A word of caution to all the wandering tales out there: be good, stick tothe path, and above all stray not into the place they call ‘myth’! For that is a dark wood creeping up on the edge of your green and pleasant decorum, its rank undergrowth full of archaic fancies. The most ridiculous fairy tales lurk in those forests, waiting to snare your credibility, the most addle-headed childlike nonsense. Obscene thoughts grimace in theshadows, where placid hearts fall into the clutches of men with the heads of birds and eyes like night-windows with candles in them. As for theMountains of Fiction - steer clear! You might take a dreadful fall, from thence, into the river of wild undisciplined dreams and be swept away forever.

Mounted (Caroline Takes a Walk Down Memory Lane)

Title of Works:



It's All About The Fun of The Chase, Bob, 2006
Oil on canvas, 191cm x 276cm



Mounted (Caroline Takes a Walk Down Memory Lane), 2005 Oil on canvas, 89cm x 127cm



The Parishes, 2004
Oil on canvas, 56cm x 71cm

Be good stories obedient fables. Stick to the path! Heed not the insatiable crows, “desire” and “delusion”, swooping over the fetid corpse of pragmatism. Walk the straight path over jealous English fields, through bright summer days; the road of predictable destinies, of sensible lives,
well-lived under the edifying sun and the pious sky; a path strewn with morals like flowers, with clichés shining like jewels.




By Laurence Figgis
(Text written for British School at Rome Catalogue, 2006)

The Parishes, 2004