There is a new feature about Ted Coney's Family Portraits on Spotted In Ely and you can now see it on my NEWS AND REVIEWS page.
If you click to the original version you will see a photo of the labyrinth of mirrors that I used for my painting 'David's Journey' several years ago. It contains the figures of Muffin the Mule and his friends, who represented different members of the family in the picture.
I was reminded of the year I did Open Studio in our house in Great Shelford and I had it on display alongside the painting.
We had two cats then, so I carefully covered the labyrinth with a cloth, ready to open to the public the next day.
I came down to utter carnage. The cats had jumped all over the cloth and broken some of the animals, many of which were made of paper mache and clay. I quickly mended as many as I could and opened the house as planned.
People seemed very interested in both the painting and labyrinth. It was only after everyone had gone that I realised why the cats were so intent on attacking the model.
Inside was a dead mouse which must have experienced a horrible time running along walls of mirror before it expired.
Did anyone notice? Obviously to polite to say.
If you click to the original version you will see a photo of the labyrinth of mirrors that I used for my painting 'David's Journey' several years ago. It contains the figures of Muffin the Mule and his friends, who represented different members of the family in the picture.
I was reminded of the year I did Open Studio in our house in Great Shelford and I had it on display alongside the painting.
We had two cats then, so I carefully covered the labyrinth with a cloth, ready to open to the public the next day.
I came down to utter carnage. The cats had jumped all over the cloth and broken some of the animals, many of which were made of paper mache and clay. I quickly mended as many as I could and opened the house as planned.
People seemed very interested in both the painting and labyrinth. It was only after everyone had gone that I realised why the cats were so intent on attacking the model.
Inside was a dead mouse which must have experienced a horrible time running along walls of mirror before it expired.
Did anyone notice? Obviously to polite to say.
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