The bombed Iraq car, donated by Jeremy Deller, to the Imperial War Museum (IWM), is an ongoing source of fascination. I spent several weeks doing detailed pencil studies in my sketchbook. Looking at the abstract beauty of the deep curves of the twisted metal in the safety of the museum environment, throws up a searing contrast with the awareness of the horror of the violence of the event in Baghdad. It’s a challenge to reconcile the beauty with the horror and I regard this subject as ongoing ‘work in progress.’
Charcoal, lino prints and coloured pencil drawing:

Car from Iraq (detail 2) lino print
Project: Car from Iraq
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After the fire
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Aleppo Etching on Handmade Paper
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In the Landscape: Prints
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Bombed House in Algiers
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Demolition near Blackfriars Bridge
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Dried Banana Skins
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Earthquake House Kourion, Cyprus
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Faces in a Stone Wall, Eskdale, Cumbria
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Flotsam
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Fragment, Bombed Interior
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Project: Car from Iraq
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Fragment, Cardoon Leaves
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Sketchbook Studies
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Figure Studies
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Fragment, Cardoon Leaves
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Lanyon Quoit, West Cornwall
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Maltese Goddess
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Maltese Rocks
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Memories of Pompeii
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Men a Tol, West Cornwall
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Monster in a Hedgerow
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Old Olive Tree
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Pentre Ifan, Watercolour Sketch
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Pentre Ifan, Wood Engraving
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Septimius Severus’ Arch
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Storm Damaged Tree, Bushy Park
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Uprooted Tree Root
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Waylands Smithy
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In the Landscape: Drawings
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Plant Studies
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Car Wrecks
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Trees on Golden Cap, Dorset
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Goddess Enshrined