The Shepherd Lord

I'd wanted to make a pentaptych after coming across pictures of The Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, while browsing art books in Tameside Collage, 1989. 'The Shepherd Lord' is one of a series of identically sized pentaptychs to be viewed in sequence, kind of like The Stations of The Cross that you can find in some churches. Upon first glance these collages look very much like they belong in a church, not so much after further inspection. Made at the same time as The Grand Tour collages, The Shepherd Lord combines the outlines of figures from jazzmags with images from natural history books, their silhouettes replaced with patterned papers, resulting in writhing clumps of ambiguity, crowned, throned, and set in 1950s scenic splendour. 'The King of Glory' - another pentaptych from the same sequence, can also be found in the Print Shop.

Available in five different sizes as a giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, this print of a hand cut paper collage can also be purchased framed, with six options to choose from.

Please note, these prints have been created using scans or photographs of hand cut paper collages. As a general rule, the smaller the print option, the closer it is in size to the original artwork. While I have taken a great deal of care in preparing these images for reproduction, the more scaled-up the print option, the more you may notice its construction i.e. I use a scalpel to cut the various elements in the collage and the hand-made element maybe more evident when magnified at a larger scale. The same goes for the vintage papers I use. Most of the landscapes in my collages are taken from vintage photogravures - a copperplate photo-etching process that leaves a beautiful grainy finish, which again, will be more apparent when seen on the larger scale giclée prints.