ECCENTRICUS
I was asked to write a bit to fit in this space but do you know how difficult that is? Writing about your own creations is notoriously prone to over exaggeration and self promotion so where exactly do you start to describe a collection without sounding like a complete arty-arsehole? It took eighteen months, involved the building of large theatre sets, the creation of seven, two foot high models of...ZZzzzz...Sorry I nearly nodded off and quite rightly so, let’s start again. Well, you know when you go to the shop for a bottle of milk and come back with a toilet seat instead? Well that’s what happened with this collection. The Lost Impossimals have been around for a number of years and were originally invented to fill a creative gap combining everything a good book should include but packaging it in an amusing art form. The kind of art you hang on your wall and nudge people as you relate the story behind it, the type of art you snigger at when you pass, art with the kind of detail that you only uncover over time. Eccentricus Britannicus is not a crap Harry Potter Brexit spell, it’s a tour-de-force of collectable and unique Python’esq imagery twisted with history, surrealism and penny dreadful Victorian storytelling. Artwork that you can proudly hang on your wall and say to jealous friends ‘You will never believe what this is about!’
It also contains expletives.
For all their high morals the Victorians were particularly good at swearing so if you are easily offended by the word ‘bum’ then please close this brochure and turn it over where you will find a delightful fairy tale instead.
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the artwork.
Peter & Jayne Smith
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