Ladybird Series 561

A mixed media series on canvas

In this series I intend to disquiet the viewer, allowing for deep insights into

one’s own moral code & impart a fresh awareness of the level of comfort with

one’s own mortality. I have chosen my work wisely to leave the viewer with a

lasting impression of the fleeting, beautiful fragility of existence.

Horror stories can be as scrupulous as fairytales, & I hope to stir up

poignant, dark, compelling emotions to the viewer through this series of

over 20 mixed media canvases which encompass a variety of images which are

delicate, sentimental & uneasy to view, they could be dark fairytales for

adults-fables that illustrates our more blocked out or closed off impulses

and deeds.

The theme of this series pertains to that which is beautiful in a horrific

way or horrific in a beautiful way. The title “Ladybird series 561-

Adventures from throughout history” is borrowed from popular children

stories. Whether its seventeenth century fairytales or atrocities committed

in the early half of the twentieth century, people have been fascinated by

horror & the macabre.

A little about the title;

This is the largest Ladybird series produced between 1940 and 1980 and was

one of the more popular.

This series examined many of the great men and women from history. It covers

great rulers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; great explorers

like Scott and Cook; it also explored some of the great civilisations of the

world including the Aztecs, the Incas and the Vikings.

I chose the title to convey that often the versions of history that we first

learn as children through storybooks, then later again in textbooks & we see

rehashed through the media are are fairytales for grownups, to make

death,war, disease, injustice & misfortune more palatable. I intend my

series to show the disparity been the documented accounts of History and the

actualitities of life and death within that timeframe. I wish to demonstrate

how time passed & rose tinted glasses white wash over horrors & dark

fairytales.

War, biological and chemical warfare to stolen lives, medical trauma issues

& the cyclical nature of existence are all explored.

A little about the title;

This is the largest Ladybird series produced between 1940 and 1980 and was

one of the more popular.

This series examined many of the great men and women from history. It covers

great rulers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; great explorers

like Scott and Cook; it also explored some of the great civilisations of the

world including the Aztecs, the Incas and the Vikings.

I chose the title to convey that often the versions of history that we first

learn as children through storybooks, then later again in textbooks & we see

rehashed through the media are are fairytales for grownups, to make

death,war, disease, injustice & misfortune more palatable. I intend my

series to show the disparity been the documented accounts of History and the

actualitities of life and death within that timeframe. I wish to demonstrate

how time passed & rose tinted glasses white wash over horrors & dark

fairytales.

War, biological and chemical warfare to stolen lives, medical trauma issues

& the cyclical nature of existence are all explored.