Description

Oil and gold leaf on board. Signed verso.

In a frame made by the artist, covered in matchsticks and stained with black ink. Outside measurements including frame – 38.5 x 43 cms.

…all our notions of reality are in fact attempts to enter and inhabit the other world of our imagination, to join the here to the somewhere else. We should never be too much at home in what merely surrounds us, we should never have ‘found ourselves’ too easily. Oliver Bancroft’s paintings help to unsettle us and, in so doing, to communicate with the realms elsewhere; he leads us in the dance.
Hilary Davies. August 2021.