The Souq 2020

The Souq 2020

The Souq 2020 is a panel from the Desert Series collection.  The experiences shared in the desert are something that will stay with me and my family forever.  The land, wide open spaces with evidence all around that this was once seabed, seemed endless.  Yet this whole country is no bigger than Yorkshire!   It is a peaceful, beautiful and deadly place that never ceased to amaze with pockets of unlikely life everywhere, dormant life, ephemeral, transient life.  Shrubs and bushes exploding with butterflies in the days that followed rain, yet gone by the time of return to prove the spectacle.

It is also an industrial wasteland, with evidence strewn across the rocky sand between the well heads and cement factories that seemed to appear above the heat haze horizon like some kind of post-apocalyptic moonscape vision.

The people, the wealth, the traditions, the facades, the contradictions, to us, the paradise, to the workers, not so…….

Most traditional places have been torn to the ground and rebuilt to mimic tradition but are littered with boutique hotels and restaurants. Façade is my favourite way to describe it.

Handcrafted

Each panel is an individual work of art, signed by myself and a one-off.    Please take a look at some of my other panels, diptychs and triptychs  in my Desert  Series collection.  They all feature a Screen Printed image over layered underglaze colours on the clay. This then achieves a more vivid finish. The panels are then fired to 1260C with a very light, almost transparent glaze to allow the colour and surface to dominate.

Delivery

Our preference is for you to visit the studio and pick up your purchase directly from us.  However, we understand that not everyone is able to do this.  Please see our delivery terms and conditions.   If the panel is shown as in stock it means there is one available to be viewed and immediately purchased.  These panels need specialist packing and shipping.  Therefore if you would like to have it shipped please contact me to identify the cost and shipping method, prior to completing the purchase on-line.  If no stock is shown, then please contact me to talk about what you would like and when I could make it for you.