Tag: print of the day
Sculpture show, Ugly, Gloucestershire
Simple grave, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Times Square, unusually quiet
Big skies, big fields, distant sea, the north Norfolk coast
Skyline, Picos de Europa National Park, Northern Spain
Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Somerset
National Geographic magazine, 1960s
BOOK
Much of Town’s imagery is rooted in his early years spent in Cyprus. Even before he had mastered the basics of an English education, he was familiar with myth and mythology; the beach where Aphrodite came ashore, the Tombs of the Kings in Paphos, the influence of the Phoenicians, Crusaders and Ottomans, and the symbols and characters of the ancient world. Over the years, this mingled in his mind to produce a lively and varied iconography for his work.
