End Of The Pier

 My nephew visited Blackpool recently and sent  a photo of a plaque he had seen which he thought would interest me.

It recorded the spot on the pier where Harry Corbett bought a glove puppet in 1948 which would later be called Sooty.

I used Sooty and his friends to represent various members of my family in two paintings in the 1990s

'Duet', painted in 1991 was about my parents going to live near my eldest brother, who had recently  divorced.

In 1997 I again used Sooty and friends in 'Offrenda' - a work recording my mother turning 80 (although I would later use it to remember her by, in the tradition of Mexican 'Day of the Dead')

You can see these images on my latest Instagram and Facebook posts.