Notes on Two Pieces
Harry Nicholson
From the pieces I entered at Conference (2001), I favour two above the rest. What follows are my notes for those pieces, the notes were part of the entry.
Skull of the Giant (March 2001)
The Russian born painter Nicholas Roerich 1874-1947 used colour and imagery in a way that I find richly metaphoric. I wished to echo something of his style with enamel.
I have taken a detail of his painting "Issa and the Skull of the Giant" (tempera on canvas 1933), Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York. This detail appeared suitable for interpretation with low fire technique using only flux and white, allowing fire-scale to form.