SK Hippopotamus at The Booth Museum

Description

‘SK Hippopotamus at The Booth Museum.’

From original ink drawing with colour added digitally. Printed on art paper using archival inks. This print is available in the following formats:

A1 size landscape 84.1 x 59.4 cm (33.1 x 23.4 in) Large. From a limited edition of 100, the print is signed and numbered.
A3 size landscape 42 x 29.7 cm (16.5 x 11.7 in) Medium. Open edition signed print.
A4 size landscape 29.7 x 21 cm (11.7 x 8.3 in) Small. Open edition signed print.

In the Summer of 2016 I visited with my friends Scarlett and Jake The Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton.  The three of us are passionate artists. I sat on the carpet to draw in pen the skulls of the Baby Oran Gutan and the head of the Hippopotamus.
Later on at the studio I inked these drawings and wondered what could I add to make them more playful. It is then that I thought of these exhibits at night, when there is no one there, all those long hours. In my imagination I saw the bay Orangutan Wondering around the rooms of the building playing with a model toy of the museum. The result was an enchanted skeleton of a baby Orangutan holding in his bony hand a toy model of The Booth Museum. A meaningful reflection on the endeavours of the Victorian Scientists looking for answers in the natural World and the environment that also relates to the Victorian phantasmagoria and the chilling past-time of deciphering the supernatural.