Shangri-La
I have recently created a series of small sculptures and
wall-pieces with the theme of Shangri-La. The meaning
of Shangri-La is ‘imaginary paradise on Earth’. This was
the name of my Grandparents’ home where
I spent a lot
of time as a child.
The garden was filled with flowers; I especially loved the
red poppies. There was a field of daffodils and all sorts of
fruit trees. My Grandad always tackled gardening with
enormous enthusiasm. He dug out a well, built rockeries
with waterfalls and made ponds which he filled with fish.
He even created a swimming pool and I helped to collect
a thousand
sea-shells to go all around it. |
My Grandmother, meanwhile, had a passion for birds. She
had enormous aviaries filled with budgies, canaries and
doves. Chickens and pheasants roamed everywhere. She
even had her ‘Prince’, a beautiful peacock who was rather partial to chocolate biscuits.
Shangri-La was a place of fond memories for me, and pictures from there have stayed in my mind ever since. It is these
images that I have carefully reproduced on this range
of ceramics.
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