Ian Howard: Drago Morto

Ian Howard: Drago MortoIn the suite of prints entitled Heretical Diagrams, Ian Howard explores the theme of ideas in opposition: orthodoxy and heresy, magic and reason, order and disorder. The opposition is found in both the imagery and the form of the prints. On the one hand the compositions are frontal, symmetrical, diagrammatic and describe clear unequivocal designs which reflect the structure of the altar piece, the icon and the banner. On the other hand these simple

painting directly on to canvas but I wanted this to be less broad and more detailed

such as bones of the human skeleton

how deep the tone needed to be and what indentation

Hugely reminiscent of Picasso

or children exploring an attic

Duchess of Argyll who reportedly became a vociferous nymphomaniac after falling forty feet down a lift shaft

shows both the front and the back of the dogfish

he started Moschatel Press

I was hidden for long enough – I’m a much more odd person now than I ever was

The left panel is numbered

publications and print

Paper Size: 64 x 46