Giclee print edition of 200 on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper

45 x 31 cm

In 2018 I was artist in residence on the set of Amazon's Good Omens during their filming in and around London. I was invited by my friend author Neil Gaiman, who adapted the screenplay from his book with Terry Pratchett and is the program's Showrunner. I had been collaborating with Neil on a series of portraits of his esteemed head for the last few years.

I produced sketches on the set and had sittings with David Tennant and Michael Sheen, the show's two main protagonists. From this I created a body of work, inspired by the show, called Good Icons. These reference the characters being an Angel and a Demon, and are created in the process I developed specifically for a portrait of Neil on a 3000-year-old bog oak, where I captured special oil pigment in layers of melted sun bleached beeswax.

I conceived a pair of icons where each painting hovers over a newspaper front page issued on one of the author’s birth date. Sheen’s Aziraphale floats over a copy of The News Chronicle dated 28th April 1948, the day Terry Pratchett came into the world.

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