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Martin Herbert : Cerne Abbas : Watercolour : 14" x 22" (355 x 560 mm) : 2000

Giclee print on fine art paper, 10" x 15", signed & numbered (limited edition of 200): £25 Mini print, mounted to fit 10" x 12" frame, open edition: £15 Greetings card 5" x 7": £2 When you have finished shopping: Original watercolour for sale - please enquire for details.

"In the sequestered valley, and hard by the spot where Æthelmar's monastery once flourished, the eye is arrested by the apparition of a gigantic human figure, rudely sculptured on the side of a lofty hill, which to a person unaccustomed to the sight is an astounding, and, probably, a repulsive object. There, with outstretched arm and uplifted club, as though he were a tutelary Divinity of the quaint old town of Cerne Abbas, he stands in apparent defiance of the degenerate race below, with whom he owns neither kith nor kin." (Dr. Wake Smart in Warne's Ancient Dorset, 1872) (Source - "Lost Gods of Albion - The chalk hill-figures of Britain", Paul Newman, 2nd edn Sutton, 1997) I find the ancient chalk hill figures of England a source of inspiration, and this painting, along with Uffington, are part of a yet-to-be-concluded series. The juxtaposition of male and female elements is one which preoccupies me (in art as well as in life).