The pineapple is one of the great motifs of the Tudor decorative tradition. It appears in the Bayleaf Farmhouse commission I made for the Weald and Downland Living Museum: a symbol of hospitality and high status, its crown-like form a declaration appropriate to the head of the table.
Here I have rendered it on a deeply textured plaster surface in silver brocade, the richness of the gilding set against the aged, worn quality of the ground beneath. The tension between the precious and the distressed is what I find most interesting in this piece.
A unique fresco secco original on hand-layered plaster and hessian, mounted on a bespoke wooden batten frame with wrap-around edges.
Dimensions: 41 × 41 × 4cm.
The pineapple is one of the great motifs of the Tudor decorative tradition. It appears in the Bayleaf Farmhouse commission I made for the Weald and Downland Living Museum: a symbol of hospitality and high status, its crown-like form a declaration appropriate to the head of the table.
Here I have rendered it on a deeply textured plaster surface in silver brocade, the richness of the gilding set against the aged, worn quality of the ground beneath. The tension between the precious and the distressed is what I find most interesting in this piece.
A unique fresco secco original on hand-layered plaster and hessian, mounted on a bespoke wooden batten frame with wrap-around edges.
Dimensions: 41 × 41 × 4cm.
